Mr_Shank

Wow, what a great ending to this novel.  I’ll admit I thought it was a little borinng at first but, it really finished out strong.

At the end Carton switches with Charles.  Charles then excapes back to England with his family.  Than Cartoon is put to death with a smile on his face.  This was the most unexpecting part of the whole book.  Do you think that this was a satifying ending?  Why or why not?  It did satisfy many of the characters.  Lucie and Charles get to live together again.  Cartoon also got to end his life, like he has talking about throughout the book.  He even got to die for a good cause, keep a family together and happy.  Lucie and Charles will always remember what Cartoon did ror them.  I believew they even named their child after him.

Next I would like to talk about the trial that put Charles in jail and gave him a death sentence.  The Defrarges challenged this along with a letter written by Dr. Manette.  Madame Defarge wants Charles ead because his family has done terrible things to her sister.  Madame believes the only way to avenge her sister is to destroy the desendents of this family.  Do you think that this is a good reason to go after Charles and his family?  Eventually in this trial Charles is ruled guilty.  This brings me to another topic.  The people and the jury at this trial seem to rule to who you know.  By this I mean that if you know people that have done good you would be set free.  This is demonstrated in the first and second trials for Darnay.  In the first he is set free because Dr. Manette speaks good of him.  Dr. Manette is like a hero over in France.  In the second trial Darnay is guilty for waht his familt has done.  Do think it is fair to be judges based on friends and family?  Why or why not.

What do you guys think about some of these questions.

-Julian Garca

In this section the narrator finally reaches London and finds that all the martians are dead.  We then see him walking through his home looking at all the destruction.  He then finds out that his wife is not dead as he thought she was.  They both confess that they thought the other one was dead.In the last chapter the narrator talks about what is happening while he is writing the last chapters of his story.  He talks about all the things that are occuring all over England. 

My questions for you are: What was H. G. Wells trying to do when he wrote this novel, and do you think that in the end the narrator went insane like everyother person he was with throughout the story.

Kody Bell

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“With overwhelming force came the thought of myself, of my wife, and the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ceased forever.” (198)

The narrator says this to himself at the end of Chapter 9, when he is wandering London and realizes that the Martians are dead. This to me is memorable because it shows how the wife truly means to him. I mean he wasn’t surviving to try to stay alive he was trying to survive to stay alive for her. That my friends is true love right there.

The other thing I would like to point out in this passage is the fact that he says that he couldn’t wait to go back to their normal life, or as he says it “the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ceased forever.” To me this means that he had this great and happy life and then it was stopped for a long time because of the Martians. The narrator is longing for this life to come back. I kind of feel like he wishes that none of this ever happened.

“It’s no use… The house is deserted. No one has been here these ten days. Do not stay here to torment yourself. No one escaped, but you.” (204)

This quote is said when the narrator goes back to his house and he is looking for his wife. When he gets there he doesn’t see his wife or his cousin. Then the narrator hears this quote and at first he thinks that he is the one that said this. He thinks that he spoke out loud. Then he walks over to the doors and sees his wife and cousin. I believe that the cousin said this to the narrators wife, because if the narrator thought it was himself saying this then it must have been a man’s voice.

I think that this quote is both memorable and funny. I think it is funny because both the narrator and his wife think that they are the only survivors when they come back to this house. They think that they are the only survivors of this town, and then when they find each other that has obviously changed. I also believe that this quote is memorable because if the narrator hadn’t heard this they wouldn’t be reunited. These were the words that brought the two love birds back together. Another reason why i think that this quote is memorable is because they both came here against other people’s request to look for each other. They put themselves in danger to find each other among the wreckage and all of the hullabuloo.

My Final Question to YOU:

How would the ending have changed if the narrator and his wife weren’t reunited? How would the narrator handle this?

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