1. The Substance Of the Shadow

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

3. 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)

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

5. 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 1757, Dr. Manette walks in the road near midnight
Two noblemen asked him to come take care of a woman and her brother

6. 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 tells the DR he hates the twins and expressing that he hated the “elder” brother the most.
The boy says that his sister was “borrowed” from her husband  What does this mean?

7. 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).

8. Dr. Manette goes back to the first patient and gives her medicine
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.
THIS IS WHY HE WENT TO JAIL!!!!
After the story the crowd at the court are all
against Darney and he is sent to the
guillotine the next day

9. Independent Work
1- Lit devices
2- Essential quotes