The Sea Still Rises Book 2 Chapter 22 Keith Earle

The “sea” of angry revolutionaries from the Storming of the Bastille, in Book 2 Chapter 22, strikes again. Significance of Title

Madame and Monsieur Defarge The Vengeance Foulon The Revolutionaries (angry peasants) Jacques Three Characters

In Saint Antoine, France, Monsieur Defarge arrives having news of the capturing of Foulon, a very wealthy man who states that ‘if people were starving they should eat grass!’ Foulon fakes his own death to avoid the angry peasants but was discovered hiding in the country Revolutionaries set out to meet Foulon, led by the Defarges and a woman named “The Vengeance” The mob tries to kill Foulon by hanging but he doesn’t die until his third hanging The peasants put his head on a pike and fill his mouth with grass When finished, the peasants eat their “scanty and insufficient suppers” and go on with their lives like nothing just happened Summary

Symbolism: Foulon’s mouth stuffed with grass “... and stifled by the bunches of grass and straw that were thrust into his hace by hundreds of hands; torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always entreating and beseeching for mercy …” (234) Allusion: Women’s March of Versailles “Foulon who told my old father that he might eat grass, when I had no bread to give him!” (232) Repetition: “Give us the … of Foulon.” “... Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon …” (232) Literary Devices

“Husbands, and brothers, and young men, Give us the blood of Foulon, Give us the head of Foulon, Give us the heart of Foulon, Give us the body and soul of Foulon, Rend Foulon to pieces, and dig him into the ground, that grass may grow for him!” (232) Essential Quote