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A Tale of Two Cities
The Golden Thread
Five Years Ago

Group Members
Syeda Aneeza Arfeen

Presentation

Maryam Majeed
Syeda Kanzah Zahra Rizvi
Mahnoor Gul
Meimoona Nazir

Previous Chapter Summary
In the previous chapter, we are introduced to Doctor Manette who
has lost all sense of time, place and self after spending 18 years in
prison
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He no longer remember who he
was and calls himself ‘One hundred and five,North tower’
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Book Summary
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two cities, published in 1859, is a historical novel that contrasts the social and
political events taking place in Paris and London prior to and during the French Revolution in the
mid-to-late 18th century
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Dickens draw unsettling parallels between the two cities, decribing abject poverty, appalling starvation,
rampant crime, ruthless capital punishment, and aristocratic greed
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Chapter Summary
Five years ago

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Lorry to bring Doctor Manette back to
England
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Jerry
Cruncher acts as a porter and messenger for the bank, and his son, who is also called
Jerry, often accompanies him
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He complains that she prays against his prosperity and tells her he
won't tolerate it
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Soon the bank calls Jerry to deliver a message
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Main Characters

Jerry Cruncher
A porter for Tellson’s Bank of
London
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Mrs
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Jr
Jerry’s son, who resembles his
father in appearance and
temperament
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Described as dark, ugly, and
cramped, the bankers were old-fashioned too
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They even
boasted that the bank was all these things, and they believed
that if it hadn’t been so unpleasant, it wouldn’t have been so well
respected
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Tellson’s bank transforms the people who work there as well
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When they hired a young man at Tellson’s London
office, they kept him in a dark place and aged him, like a
cheese, until he had the Tellson-flavor and mold grew on
him
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Our unnamed narrator describing the ugly bank
transitions into describing the dirty, ugly state of the British
justice system

Outside the bank was a man who did odd-jobs and
sometimes acted as a porter and a messenger
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His name is Jerry Cruncher
In his cramped apartment in a poor London
neighbourhood, Jerry Cruncher yells and abuses his wife
for ‘praying against him’, which he insists is interfering
with his works as an ‘honest tradesman’
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On this day,
word emerges from the bank that a porter is needed
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Jerry’s young son, left alone outside,
wonders why his father’s boots are muddy and his fingers
stained by rust
The stains of guilt on Jerry’s conscience are represented
by the mud and rust from his nocturnal work, which is as
of yet still unrevealed

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