Period 5
10-29-12
Book 1 Chapters 1-4
Summary: In chapter 1, the author explains it was one of the best and worst times in history. A stern king and a queen with a plain face ruled England and a stern king with a beautiful queen ruled France. In 1775, Mrs. Southcott had turned twenty-five and England was stable but France was heading towards disaster. In chapter 2, a group of passengers with a guard are travelling with the Dover mail coach and the horses are tiring out, and they hear galloping from behind. Mr. Lorry, a passenger, gets a message from Jerry, a messenger, from Tellson's Bank, where Mr. Lorry works, his message back is "Recalled to Life". Then the coach keeps going up the hill and Jerry leaves. In chapter 3, Jerry rides back and stops to drink along the way, and plans to deliver the message to the night watchman outside of Tellson's bank. Mr. Lorry nodes off beside his horse and dreams heading to a grave to bury someone who is forty-five and was brought back to life. In chapter 4, Mr. Lorry arrives at the Royal George Hotel and tells the clerk to wait for a young woman to arrive and to tell him when she arrives. Later that night, Miss Manette arrived from England and she arrived to be escorted to Paris to meet a gentleman from a bank because her father died. She says that she knows that Mr. Lorry brought her to England as an orphan when she was a baby, he says he did this and that her father went to prison and her mother tried to hide it from her. He is alive and they plan to go see him, everything about him is pretained under the line "Recalled to Life" and is top secret. Miss Manette doesn't move and Mr. Lorry has to call for help.
Quotation: "As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheritance, the messenger on horseback had exactly the same possessions as the King, the first Minister of State, or the richest merchant in London."
Quotation Significance: This quote is saying that secrets is what keeps all men equal. The poor farmer, the King, the Minister and the merchant are equal in the fact that they all have secrets which means they are equal.
Reflection: So far, it seems that Mr. Lorry likes Miss Manette a little and thinks she is pretty. He is scared though when she doesn't move and he calls for help. Miss Manette is shocked to find out her father is alive and that they are planning to see him. So far, this story mostly follows Mr. Lorry, but a brief chapter is about Jerry heading to deliver a message to Tellson's bank and about his dream of the man dying. I think this dream is about something to come and this makes Jerry nervous because he doesn't know the man in his dream, why he dies, who the woman he talks about is, or why he is brought back to life. Overall, Jerry is just generally confused on how he feels about everything. I think that next Miss Manette and Mr. Lorry will fall in love and go to visit her father. So far, it is hard to know what is coming up next. Mr. Lorry keeps saying he is a machine, meaning he feels like life doesn't mean anything and he only knows things about money and he loves no one.
Discussion Question: Why does Mr. Lorry call himself a machine?
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