Chapter 9 Review Mrs. Defarge is about to read a letter that was found in the bastille at Dr Manette’s jail.

Significance Of Title Title shows the “darkness” of the Evrémonde family- events happening in the dark. It shows the reason why Dr. Manette’s jail is so dark and gloomy The title can also express the evil of Mrs. Defarge (the peak of Mrs. Defarge’s cruelty)

Characters Dr. Manette Mrs. Defarge Patient 1 Patient 2 Marquis St. Evrémonde Charles Darney’s father Wife of Marquis St. Evrémonde

Plot Mrs. Defarge reads the letter Dr. Manette wrote in the first 10 years in his cell. The letter explains why Dr. Manette was sentenced in the bastille In 1767, Dr. Manette walks in the road near midnight where 2 twins stopped him. They convince Alexandre Manette to take care of patients. The women has a scarf with the letter E

Plot 2 Dr. Manette sees a women that would cries “My husband, my father and my brother!” She would then count to twelve He gives her medicine and tries to cure her Dr. Manette finds another patient that is about 17 years old. The patient lays with a stab wound that was caused by one of the twins The boy explains that the other patient is sister. He also express his hatred to the twins and expressing that he hated the “elder” brother the most. The boy says that his sister was “borrowed” from her husband

Plot 3 The boy explained that the husband of his sister sobbed twelve times and died. One of the brothers then rapes the girl. The second patient tells Dr. Manette that once he heard, he went home to get his younger sister. The boy also found his father dead. One of the twins saw the boy and wounds him. Before the boy died, he curses Marquis (elder twin).

Plot 4 Dr. Manette goes back to the first patient and gives her medicine. However she later died two hours before twelve. The next day Dr. Manette gets gold from the twins and a writes a letter to the court. Elder twin’s wife sees Dr. Manette and reveille that their last name is Evrémonde. She also makes Darney promise to justify what their family has done wrong Dr. Manette sends the letter but the twins read it. Therefore Dr. Manette is sent to jail After the story the crowd at the court are all against Darney and he is sent to the guillotine the next day

Literary Devices Metaphor- “You know, Doctor, that it is the Rights of these Nobles to harness us common dogs to carts, and drive us” (page 337) Personification-…I was brought through my living grave” (page 344) Reversal Irony- good girls among us (page 336)

Essential Quote “If it had pleased GOD to put it in the hard heart of either of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife- so much as to let me know by a word whether alive or dead- I might have thought that He had not quite abandoned them. But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies. And them and their descendants, to their race, I Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. I denounce them to Heaven and to earth” (page 344)

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