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IdelmBend
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:53 am Post subject: A Tale of Two Cities. |
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| I have an honors english summer assignment that is due tomorrow. We had to read A Tale of Two Cities and do some assignments on it. It was group into three groups, ch. 1-12, 11-20, and 21-30, even though there are more than that many chapters. We had to do a summary for each group all at once. She said they had to be one page. i have a problem though. for my summary for chapters 21-30, the summary is almost 2 pages. will somebody condense it for me? I am having a little trouble doing it. I won't copy it word for word, but I just need some help since it is due tomorrow.I am not very good at condensing. ThanksDefarge and Jacques one, two, and three are listening to a road mender talk about the man who killed Marquis St. Evremonde and how he was the child’s father who the Marquis’s carriage ran over. The man, whose name was Gaspard, went into hiding for about a year after the killing, but he eventually was captured, jailed, and hanged. Later, the Defarges take the road mender to Versailles. The road mender is splendid and he cheers the king, queen, and nobles. The Defarges admire his behavior, although they believe that the sight of such richness will cause the road mender to hate violence in the future.As the Defarges return to St. Antoine, they are alerted by a policeman who is a member of the Jacquerie to be on the lookout for a new spy, John Barsad. When they get back to the wine-shop, they discuss the progress of the revolution and how it Monsieur tired and depressed. Madame Defarge acknowledges how it takes time for there to be change. The next day Barsad visits the wine shop and the Defarges act like they don’t know what he is talking about. He tries to make more conversation by saying that Lucie Mannette is engaged to Charles Darnay. After the man leaves, Defarge says the hopes Lucie and Charles will stay away from France. The night before Lucie’s wedding she and her father discuss the marriage and she is and how much she loves Darnay. The doctor says it is a great step for her to take and is glad that his imprisonment has not affected her life as it has his. He says that while he was in prison, he thought about the child he had never known, although, he could never imagine the amount of happiness that Lucie brought to his life.On the morning of the wedding, Darnay and Doctor Mannette discuss some things. Soon, Lucie and Darnay are married, and they go on a two week honeymoon. Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross take Doctor Mannette home, and because of his mental state, Mr. Lorry will come back soon after doing some business. When he returns, Doctor has regressed and does not know Mr. Lorry or Miss Pross. It continues for nine days, and Mr. Lorry doesn’t want any of Doctor’s patients or Lucie or Charles to know of this. Mr. Lorry takes a leave of absence from the bank and stays with Doctor Mannette.On the tenth morning, Doctor wakes up, and there is no resemblance of what he was like the past nine days. Mr. Lorry asks the Doctor what could have caused the relapse and he responds by saying that he expected it and it was caused by a revival of some memories. He said the worst was over and he didn’t think another relapse would happen. Mr. Lorry also asks about the shoemaking equipment and if they should get rid of them. Doctor Mannette agrees and Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross get rid of the bench and tools without him.After Lucie and Darnay return, Sidney Carton visits them and asks for Darnay’s friendship and apologizes for being so rude to him after the trial. Darnay accepts it. Carton asks for permission to visit occasionally and Darnay says yes, and then he leaves.Eight years passed since Lucie and Charles got married and they have two kids, a daughter, Lucie, and a son who lived some years before he died. Both kids are fond of Carton and he visits a couple times a year. He still works for Stryver who is married to a widow and her three boys. It has been peaceful for them in England, but as problems arise in France, Mr. Lorry shows up at the Darnay’s door and says unrest in France has caused a run of the Tellson’s branch in Paris. In the Meanwhile, in France, a crowd breaks out, with weapons and the Defarges lead and attack on the Bastille. When they are there, Defarge goes in to Doctor Mannette’s old cell and looks for something and then joins a group taking the prisons governor to a hotel. On the way, the crowd beats the governor and kills him and Madame Defarge cuts his head off. Also, while this is going on, some people rescue seven prisoners and behead seven guards.About a week after the attack on the Bastille, the revolutionaries learn that a hated official who they thought was dead is alive and has been captured. After they find him, the three Jacques and the Defarges hang him and after he died, they beheaded him.One day, a man asks a road mender for directions to the Evremonde chateau, and unknowingly, he gives directions, and later that night, four men set fire on it and villagers watch it burn. They make no effort to put it out. Excited by the destruction, the villagers threaten a local tax collector who is hiding on the roof as the villagers are pounding of his door. Three years passed and the French have removed royalty and aristocracy from power. France is still shaken though and many of the French upper class who moved to England use Tellson’s Bank for gossip. One afternoon, Mr. Lorry and Darnay discuss Mr. Lorry’s possible trip to France, where he will manage the Paris branch of Tellson’s bank and do some other business. In all the commotion, talk arises about a letter for Marquis St. Evremonde, and Darnay volunteers to deliver it. When reading the letter, Darnay finds out it is from the hated tax collector who has been imprisioned. Darnay then resolves he should go to France thinking he might be able to calm some of the revolutionary fervor. He writes letters to Doctor Mannette and Lucie, and then departs to France. |
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ideazibibinue
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:27 am Post subject: A Tale of Two Cities. |
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| Do the summary's have to be at least one page for quality, or a maximum of one page?Learning to condense will be needed for most schooling; However, you can shrink your digital text to a smaller size, compacting the existing document as much as possible without rewriting format as much as possible and not the content.It may help you to summarize involves leaving out details. The ability to produce good writing flow and describe and/oor explain with as much content, but efficiently is also a good, but possibly more complicated, helpful trait.It may see to make it longer, but perhaps someone not familiar with the story might not understand your summary of events. This might be something to consider when and if you revise this assignment. |
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ideomdrordase
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:01 am Post subject: A Tale of Two Cities. |
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| I won't do it all for you, but here's a start. Change"Defarge and Jacques one, two, and three are listening to a road mender talk about the man who killed Marquis St. Evremonde and how he was the child’s father who the Marquis’s carriage ran over. The man, whose name was Gaspard, went into hiding for about a year after the killing, but he eventually was captured, jailed, and hanged."into"Defarge and company hear from a road mender the story of Gaspard, the father who killed the Marquis and was eventually hanged for the crime."Any time two sentences can be expressed as one, do it. Never tell a story if you can get the same idea across with an adjective. |
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