Book 3 Questions

Chapter 14

1. Whose funeral passes telsons bank

A spy's funeral passed telson's bank.

3. Why is jerry interested in the funeral?

Jerry is interested in the funeral because it was the funeral of a spy, and there was no body when he went to see it.

6. Judging by jerry's ill humor the following day, how successful was his "Fishing expedition"

Jerry's ill humor shows that his "fishing expedition" was not good.

7. This chapter seems to be an interlude in the main thread of the story. Yet, what one connecting link is there with an earlier important event in which Darnay, the Manettes, and Mr.Lorry were involved?

The one link to an earlier event was the court.

12. Why does Cruncher look at young Jerry with pride at the end of the chapter? In what way is he even more justified than he knows?

He looks at young Jerry with pride when Jerry is encouraged to be a "resurrection-man" when he grows up. He is even more justified because he gave more hope to young Jerry, when he said that the boy "will yet be a blessing to you (Jerry)"

Chapter 15 & 16

1. What account of the fate of Gaspard is given to Defarge and the other Jaquerie by the mender of roads? He was hiding under the carrage. Gaspard is caught and made to run down a hill, and then they put him in a cage and execute him above their well.

4. Who records the names of those who have been condemned by the revolutionaries? How are the names recorded? Madame Defarge. Recorded by knitting their names.

5. Who has come to spy on the poor of Saint Antoine? How are the Defarges warned against him? John Barsad is a spy working in England.

6. What suprising news does the spy bring to the Defarges?

Lucie's getting married to Darney.

8. The Defarges are both bitter revolutionaries, but they differ in many ways.

a.       a.       How do the two Defarges differ in their attitude toward the coming revolution and their patience in waiting to see it come?

a. The way the two Defarges differ in their attitude toward the coming revolution is that Defarge believes and fears that the revolution will not come during his lifetime. Madam Defarge compares the revolution to lightning and an earthquake: it strikes quickly and with great force, but no one knows how long it will take to form. She thinks it will come extremely quickly. She expresses it by knitting.

b.      b.      How do the two Defarges differ when they hear the news about the coming marriage of Charles Darnay to Luice?

a.       a.       Madam Defarges knits Charles Darnays name in the registry. Mr. Defarge is a little bit mad. 

c.       c.       How does Madame Defarge show an aspect of her character in the fear she inspires in the road mender?

a. She has predicated all the people that have died so far and it scares Mr. Defarge and the fact that she is so extremely violent.

d.      d.      How did Defarge show courage on Gaspards behalf?

a.       a.       Defarge showed courage on Gaspards behalf by presenting a position to the king saying that the king should take pity on him because his son got run over by a carriage.

e.       e.       What traits do the two Defarges seem to have in common?

a.       a.       They both want a revolution. They both want to commit violence. Both been wronged.

12. What does Dickens intend to suggest by this description?

            Soon the large-faced King and the fair-faced Queen came in their golden coach, attended by the shining Bulls Eye of their Court, a glittering multitude of laughing ladies and fine lords, and in jewels and silks and powder and splendor and elegantly spurning figures, and handsomely disdainful faces of both sexes, the mender of roads bathed himself? (page 157, lines 18-22)

                        a. These people look elogate and are rich and the people have nothing. The wealthy people look down with disgust on the poor. They think common people are dogs but they still go out and are willing to be seen. They think the people love him because they wont put up there guards. Bulls eye is a little pun because they will come after them soon.

20. Dickens again uses foreshadowing to suggest events that are coming to the story.

            b. How does Madame Defarge ominously foreshadow the use of the knitting in her answer to Barsads questions? (Page 163, lines 34-36)

                        a. She knits his name into the thing she is making because it foreshadows that he is going to die later on.