Pd. 1 Tale of Two Cities Summerizer
Megan Campbell Blog #2
I am going to focus on chapter 15, Knitting, to summerize.
In this chapter a man named Jacques goes into the wine shop with Defarge and they go to the spot where Dr. Manette was hidden. Jacques then tells Defarge how he saw a man that was in chains under Marquis’s carriage. Then, a few months later he says that he has seen the man being marched alongside the road by soldiars. This man was being marched to jail where he stayed until he was hung. This chapter is called knitting because Madame Defarge’s knitting work shows in its stiching the names of the people the revolutionaries wanted to kill.
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February 21st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Since you weren’t here on Friday you didn’t know that we were only reading up to Chapter 14, but that’s okay because now you’re ahead!
I think we picked you to be the summarizer, but I honestly don’t remember. We should probably all exchange e-mail addresses or phone numbers or something. Anyway, back to the post. Well I didn’t read Chapter 15 yet, but based on your summary I would like to make a connection. Madame Defarge and her knitting sounds kind of like the Fates from Greek mythology. They were three sisters who had all the strings of people’s lives and when it was time for someone to die they snipped the string. This is sort of like the knitting because it deals with yarn and the deaths of people. Am I the only one who has heard of the Fates before? I don’t know if this is common knowledge because I’m weirdly into Greek/Roman mythology and stuff. If you haven’t heard of the Fates, they were in the movie Hercules. And yes, I like the old Disney movies so I’m sure they were in there. I think they all shared one eyeball… like that all argued over who got to use it and passed it around from body to body. I’m not sure if that was true in Greek mythology or not. But now I’m just rambling. Getting back to the original connection, do you guys agree with me about the Fates and Madame Defarge being related?
Erin B.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I didn’t read chapter 15, and I don’t really know what the fates are about…so sorry.
I’ll read chapter 15 soon and post after I read it.
-Maddie Zinn