Sabine Toews A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 237 pages Independent Reading Book Assessment 1. Memory: What was the most memorable moment in the book for you? Why? 2. Ethics: Do characters in the story display moral courage? How do the characters in the story decide what is right and wrong? 3. Synthesis: How does the title of the story tie the story together and help give the story meaning? The title A Tale of Two Cities is most certainly meaningful because the book centers around the lives of people living in or staying in two different cities -- Paris and London. Some readers might stray off the metaphorical path of having the book centered around these cities’ events and more onto lesser events, such as awigbrkjanvhb, so having the book’s subject stated could help with reading comprehension. 4. Evaluation I: Is the story well-written? What’s unique or different about the author’s style? Give examples. In my modern opinion, A Tale of Two Cities is very poorly written. Even though it might have been the pinnacle of elegance in its day, Dickens’ works are now written using older versions of the English language and confuse me to no end. This made it very hard for me to read and …show more content…
The most obvious other ending that I could have seen happening is for Madame Defarge to not only live through Miss Pross’ murder attempt, but also finding out that Carton had taken Darnay’s place and then somehow having them both being executed. It just seems to me that Carton’s plan was executed (see what I did there?) too easily and something was bound to go wrong. Not everyone could have been fooled by the clever little switch he made, and even if they were someone had to have noticed Lucie and Carton’s (Darnay’s) suspiciously romantic interactions after the execution and suspected some sort of foul