1. Book III Chapter 5 “The Wood-Sawyer” Title meaning: Lucie encounters a man who makes wood and taunts her about the guillotine.

2. Plot Summary: Lucie waits every day wondering whether or not her husband will be sent to the guillotine. Lucie encounters the road mender who is now the wood-sawyer at a wood-cutting shop. The wood-sawyer scares Lucie, always joking about the guillotine. Days later, a mob rushes around the prison, doing what’s called the “Carmagnole,” a revolutionary dance. Lucie’s father then tells her Darnay is going on trial the next day. When the Manettes come to tell Mr. Lorry the news, he is surprised and hides the person to whom he was talking, leaving the Manettes bewildered.

3. Literary Devices: Simile: Dickens compares the revolutionaries to demons to illustrate how vicious and relentless they are when dancing the Carmagnole: “There could not be fewer than five hundred people, and they were dancing like five thousand demons” (288). Foreshadowing: Three people losing their lives at the guillotine could be a sign that Darnay is next: “One. Two. Three. Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow” (290). Repetition: This constantly repeated phrase shows the seriousness of the matter for the revolutionaries. They want all or nothing: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death.” (288)

4. Essential Quote “Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for la Guillotine…” (285)