A Tale of Two Cities Book 3 Chapter 3: The Shadow

1. A Tale of Two CitiesBook 3 Chapter 3: The Shadow By: Salina thongsanoy

2. Title Significance • The Shadow • Describes the dark feeling that the Defarges has on them

3. Summary • Mr. Lorry and Lucie rent a place near Tellsons • Defarge goes to Mr. Lorry’s room to deliver letters • Lucie cheered up once she heard the good news Mr. Lorry gave her about Charles • The shadow of Madame Defarge and the other two fell on little Lucie in such a dark and threatening manner that her mother instinctively knelt down on the ground next to her and held her to her chest • The shadow seemed to fall on both the mother and her child • Lucie begs Madame Defarge to keep her husband safe.. All she says is “your husband is not my business here” • Madame Defarge goes back to knitting and leaves

4. Literary Devices • Simile: “They passed through the intervening streets as quickly as they might….” pg. 276 • Simile: “The wives and mothers we have been used to see, since we were as little as this child, and much less, have not been greatly considered?” pg. 279 • Imagery: “All our lives, we have seen our sister woman suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds?” pg.279 • Repetition: “Courage, my dear Lucie,” said Mr. Lorry, as he raised her. ‘Courage, courage!” pg. 279

5. Essential Quote • “I am not thankless, I hope, but that dreadful woman seems to throw a shadow on me and on all my hopes” pg.279