Period 5
10-30-12
Book 1 Chapters 5-6
Summary: In chapter 5, In Saint Antione, a wine bottle falls to the ground and a man dips his finger in the red wine and uses it to write "blood" on the wall. Miss Manette and Mr. Lorry arrive at the wine shop but the owner, Mr. Defarge and his wife behind the counter ignores them at first and talk to three other men. Mr. Defarge leads the three men upstairs and when he returns Mr. Lorry has a conversation with him and Mr. Defarge leads them upstairs to a room to see an old man making shoes. In chapter 6, Mr. Manette tells them he is making a woman's shoe and mistakes Lucy for his wife and tells her how he begged them to let him keep a few strands of her hair that he had in possession. Lucy tells him he can go home, and Mr. Manette is overcome with emotion and she says he must now go to London, and Mr. Defarge puts them in a coach so they can go home.
Quotation: "If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!"
Quotation Significance: This quote is Lucy talking to her father and she is saying that if he is hinting for a home and he knows that she is hinting for him to share it with her, all he has to is ask. She is saying that she wants her dad to come home and be with her forever and live with her .
Reflection: Lucy has just met her father in the Wine Shop and is obviously in shock about it. She is sa to see the condition he is in and she wants to love him and be with him forever. Mr. Manette recognizes her first as his wife but realizes she is way too young and starts to assume that this is his daughter. He calls her a gentle angel and wants to be with her again. In the first part of chapter 5, the scene where the wine bottle is dropped to interesting because it seems to foreshadow how Lucy and Mr. Lorry's relationship will work out, it will bring some good- the wine being fed to the children- and have some good aspects but will ultimately end badly, this is symbolized when the man writes "blood" on the wall of a building. I thought that the idea of the "wine shop" symbolizing more than just a wine shop was interesting, it was not only a shop, but the center of the revolutionary force in Paris. I think that next Mr. Lorry and Lucy will fall in love and it will br good for some time but ultimately end badly.
Discussion Question: What kind of emotions does Lucy feel when she meets her father?
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