Sacrifice And Redemption In A Tale Of Two Cities

A tale of two cities is a book about the French Revolution and the characters who get caught up in it. It takes place over about 17 years. From 1775-1772 with flashbacks that go back further than that. It shows all the injustices leading up to the ultimate revolution. It is also in various ways a Christian allegory about sacrifice and redemption. The book begins in 1775 where a man named Jarvis lorry is on his way to Dover England. He works for a bank and is leaving for France. A man named Jerry cruncher catches up with him and hands him a strange note. The following day Jarvis meets up with a woman named Lucie manette and gives her the news that her assumed dead father was alive and that he would take her to see him. Her father had been locked
up in the Bastille. In 1790 Jerry cruncher works as a runner for the bank is on assignment watching a trial for a man named Charles who is accused for leaking English secrets to France. Later a man named marquis evrémonde who is very wealthy runs over a poor boy and tosses his distressed father a gold coin. Later his nephew darnay accuses him of mistreating the people and wants to renounce his inheritance. In the morning marquis is found dead. Darnay, mr. Striver and carton are all in love with lucie. It's 1789 lucie and

Charles have a daughters and are happily married. The revolution finally began. The Bastille which was a symbol of the oppression of the poor surrenders. It is now 1792 and 3 years of agony have been happening. Darnay is arrested in France for a year. Lucies fathers becomes the physician for the prison. He is released from prison and arrested again. Darnay escapes and goes with lucie. Carton sacrifices himself for darnay by switching places with him in prison so he could live with his wife. He is eventually executed for his friend.