TOTC: Connector: LAST BLOG!: Leah Sevco
LAST BLOG!
This does not really have anything to do with my position as connector, but I would like to point something out. Does it not seem that by the end of the story Carton is portrayed to be more of a central character than any of the other main characters? Throughout the story we could only really get into Lucie’s, Lorry’s, the Doctor’s and a few others thoughts. But now at the end of the story, we got inside Carton’s head and were able to see what he was thinking.
Anyway, now to be the connector. In a very distant way, because we all know that this story’s events were no way near as significant… the sacrafice that Carton made for Lucie, Darnay, Dr. Manette and Lorry could somewhat be related to the sacrafice that Jesus Christ had made on the cross for everyone in the world. Throughout Jesus’ time spent human on earth, he taught people of God and guided them in the correct direction to eventually get to heaven. Even though Carton may have not seemed like a huge main character, he was still there to help and enfluence people. And lastly, when Jesus had died and sacraficed himself for us on the cross, this is similar to Carton disguising himself and then sacrificing himself to save Lucie, Darnay, the doctor and Lorry. Do you agree with me? (Or laugh at me, haha) Can any of you think of another way that the two are similar?
Hope you guys enjoyed this book as much as I did………………………………
-Leah Sevco 
Category: Connector, Per 3 ToTC Con | Tags: Connector, Leah, period 3, ToTC 6 comments »
March 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am
About the first thing you said Leah, I agree with you that Carton is the main character by the end of the book and we hear his thoughts more than any other characters in book three. I really didn’t know who was the “main” main character in the book, but by the end Sydney Carton is and ends of being the hero.
I don’ know if I would relate Sydney Carton to Jesus Christ, but I certainly see how the two are connected right away. There have been many people who have sacrificed themselves or something because the loved someone or something else. I don’t know if you guys have ever seen Phantom of the Opera but it takes place in France, but that doesn’t have anything to with this really. The Phantom loves Christine, a young chorus girl who he secretly tutors but when the new co- owner of the theatre, Raul, falls in love with her the Phantom gets jealous and starts to threaten and set evil traps in the theatre. In the end the Phantom lets Christine go with Raul because he loved her so much that he wanted her to be happy. What do you guys think came over Carton when he came back in the third book, what happened to him in that time when we didn’t see him?
-Rebecca Krick
March 8th, 2009 at 10:58 am
This is a very interesting connection with Carton. I’m not very familliar with Jesus and his story. I only go to church twice a month. I do know that he did die to make people happy. In this regard Carton is very similiar. Carton sacrificed himself for other people’s happiness.
I believe that the similarities end there. Jesus lived an honest life. Carton’s life was falling apart. Both men also died for different reasons. Jesus died for peaple’s sins. Carton died for love. Overall i believe that this was a good connection.
-Julian Garcia
March 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
To answer your question, Rebecca, since like Julian said that ‘his life was falling apart’ maybe when the book was not focusing on Carton he was somewhere else, thinking and considering his life and his choices. In that time, maybe, is when he came to realize that he can not have Lucie, but he will do anything to make her happy.
-Leah Sevco
March 8th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I think that is what happened to Carton overall, he realized he couldn’t have Lucie but he would do anything for her. Thanks for answering, Leah!
-Rebecca
March 8th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I don’t really think that he was a main character, but just a character that served a purpose to the thought that the author was trying to get out. I thought that he was the showing of how Dickens was saying that love cannot be thrown around.
This is a good comparison, becasue both are simmilar in the fact that they are fighting for people. But can’t we also just say that Dickens throws in a fairy tale neding just like all the other books. I would of liked the book even more if it was based on reality. He was trying to say that man is good also, but I think he took it a little to far.
I just think that he was looking after, and wanted to see her have a happy fairy tale life. I don’t think that it was a major event that dictates this whole book. I think he did it, becasue he felt that he would have done a good deed, which is part of the theme that I said about all men ahve a good side of the heart.
-Alex
P.S. Very good dsicussion this week guys, and I cannot wait for All-In.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Ha, I can’t wait for All-In either, Alex. Yay a book we want to read!!! Ha, watch us hate it!
Also, I know this is last minute (and that no one will read this and that Mr. Shank probably won’t grade it (please grade this)) but I had found another connection in just the last past hour. I was watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban, I believe, and Harry was being attacked by two other wizard-like men. He was being attacked because of something that his father had done that the other particularly did not like. Also, they had punished Ron, another character, because one of the elders in his family had disrespected Harry’s father.
I know that was a last minute connection, sorry, but I just thought of it and thought I might as well give it a shot and add it to our blogs.
-Leah Sevco