Book TWO - Book THREE (Chapters 22 - Chapter 2)

Chapter 22 starts out a week after Dr. Manette's letter was found while storming the prison where he was kept, called the Bastille. At this time, Defarge runs into the stor claiming a man named Foulon was found telling the starving people to eat grass. Foulon, like Robert Cly, faked his death to keep from being killed. I don't think it would have matter at this point though because Foulon is eventually hung anyways. The mob of people that were starving that Foulon tells to eat grass hang him. Madame Defarge says, "See the old villain bound with ropes. That was well done to tie a bunch of grass upon his back. Ha, ha! That was well done. Let him eat it now!" What is so great about the bunch of grass that is tied to his back? Why does she clap to this?

Also in this chapter, I think that there is another incident of resurrection. I think that Foulon is an example of resurrection because he was "dead," and then he was found alive like he came back to life like Christ did. Although it was not really him that was in the casket that was buried, it still seems Christ-like because he was buried and came back to life like Jesus's body was placed in a tomb with a huge boulder over the entrance and he also came back to life. What is the significance of the incidents of resurrection? Another example that Foulon is Christ-like is that, in the mob's attempt to hang him on a lamppost, the rope breaks twice before Foulon is successfully hung. By making him seem inhuman and immortal by not dying on the first attempts, Foulon is seen as more of a connection to Christ.

At the end of this chapter after Foulon is hung, the mob, who merely likes the amusement of seeing someone die, kills Foulon's son-in-law too even though he has no known connection to spying or anything that Foulon has done. After all of the excitement for the day, the members of the mob return to their homes seemingly satisfied.

Chapter 23 also has a connection to the bible. "For, in these times, as the mender of roads of worked, solitary, in the dust, not often troubling himself to reflect that dust he was and to dust he must return..." This passage is similar to the book of Genesis which is found in the bible. God created Adam and Eve from dust and blew the breath of life into them.

Also in this chapter, the place where Monseigneur once lived goes up in flames. Many of the residents watch as the fire engulfs the building but do not offer any help. This depicts how the people at this time sought out entertainment just as they found entertainment in seeing others suffer and die. At this time, Monsieur Gabelle is persecuted by the residents for his link to the tax collecting. They trap him within a building so Monsieur Gabelle is forced to the housetop. He claims that if they don't let him down, he will jump and crush the men beneath him. At this time, the mob lets Monsieur Gabelle escape.

Chapter 24 is titled Drawn to the Loadstone Rock because a loadstone is a type of magnet that is very powerful, and a magnet is something that pulls or draws other things toward it. Charles Darnay is drawn to Paris, France to reclaim his family name and relinquish the power back to the people. "But, he had oppressed no man, he had imprisoned no man; he was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues, that he had relinquished them of his own will, thrown himself on a world with no favour in it, won his own private place there, and eaned his own bread."

In Chapter 1 of the final book of the novel, Darnay is put in prison when he reaches Paris. Defarge, who is the hired escort of Darnay, refuses to help Darnay out. He only says that he knows Darnay, but will not help him because of his loyalty to his country.

"So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners and gloom, so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor and misery through which they were seen, that Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead." While Darnay is imprisoned, he feels that he is surrounded by ghosts because he is in the company of dead people. The other imprisoned people are thought of as dead people because they have been there for so long. "... all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there."

In Chapter 2, Mr. Lorry is in Tellson's Bank in Paris as he hears the roaring going on in the streets outside. He prays thankfulness that none of the people that he cares for are in Paris at the time. I think that this part is ironice because just as he says that Dr. Manette and Lucie Manette rush into his room and tell him that Charles Darnay is in prison. It is ironic because the people that Mr. Lorry cares about are Dr. Manette and Lucie Manette, and he is in Paris which means that they must also be in Paris. He obviously did not know that they were in Paris before they rushed into the room.

At the end of the chapter things turn around, and the crowd no longer wants to kill Darnay. They actually seem rather ecstatic to save him.