Comments on: Period 1 TOTC Connector Blog 4

By: tale_of_2_cities

tale_of_2_cities — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:22:47 +0000

I agree with everyone so far. This book is a lot like To Kill a Mockingbird. Megan was right about the settings being really important. The way that whites treated African-Americans and the way that upper-class treated lower-class are very different. But the general ideas are very similar. The people in the books are very similar in the way that they treat the trials like soap operas. They aren’t interested in what happens to the people, just the entertainment they will get out of it.

-Maddie Zinn

By: tale_of_2_cities

tale_of_2_cities — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:57:53 +0000

I have read To Kill a Mockingbird and now that Lauren has brought up the point about these two books relating I am noticing the similarities and differences. One major difference that I noticed is that there is a trail taking place in both, however, in A Tale of Two Cities it is happening in an upper class community in Europe and in To Kill a Mockingbird the setting is a rural southern town. This is sidgnificant because the way people act differs from community to community. A similarity that I found to be common between the characters in both books is that they all take social order into consideration. People are not concerned with justice or other’s feelings, but only how the outcome will effect them and both books show this.

-Megan Campbell
sorry this is late my computer is complety crashed and im using other people’s

By: tale_of_2_cities

tale_of_2_cities — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:23:59 +0000

I would like to add that at the very end of A Tale of Two Cities, Darnay is found guilty. This is his third trial of the book. In the first two he was found innocent, but in the last one the jury rules him guilty. At the last trial, the crowd is happy that Darnay is guilty, which is like what happened at the trial in To Kill A Mockingbird. The connection I would like to add is between Carton and Boo Radley. Boo was always portrayed as the "bad guy" of the town. Rumors went around about all the horrible things he did and how he was locked up inside of his house. But much later in the novel it is revealed that Boo was the one who was doing all the kind things for the children like mending Jem's pants, leaving stuff for them in the knothole, and covering them with a blanket. Carton is also portrayed in a bad light at the beginning of the novel. At the beginning, Carton is a drunk with no apparent feelings for anyone besides himself. He is obviously very smart, but he chose to waste his life instead of taking opportunities. But by the end of the novel, Carton becomes the hero, and he is shown in a new way. To put it simply, both books have a villain that becomes the hero by the end. In both books, it is pretty obvious that people who are considered "higher" than others could care less about those below them. Even though the upper class in A Tale of Two Cities has the power to change things, they ignore it and stick to themselves. This is the same in To Kill a Mockingbird. The whites on the jury could rule in favor of Tom, but instead they choose not to, possibly because they consider him to be inferior. So I guess what I am trying to say is that the books show how often times people with the most power are the ones who should have that power taken away from them. It's like that quote from Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsibility." Erin B