Tale Of Two Cities Truth Analysis

The happening-truth is different from the story-truth in several ways. The chief among them is that there is a detachment from the emotions that people find in stories. The happening-truth is a recollection of events. The happening-truth, while also being portrayed through stories is not the same. The reality creates differences for example in The Things They Carried O’Brien talks about a man he killed, he claims the story is false and just allows him to fill the void of his “faceless responsibility and faceless grief” (172).
In The Tale of Two Cities the happening-truth and story truth are put on display. The one thing that alters the amount of truth in either the story or happening truth is the amount of impact over time that it has caused. For example, Tim is still affected by the death of his first love, as O’Brien says:
I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way. She's not the embodied Linda; she's mostly made
However, the happening-truth is more or less true based upon the authors present feelings. For example, in A Tale of Two Cities Doctor Manette posed as a witness against the imprisonment and execution of Charles Darnay. Originally acquitted Charles is later arrested again the same day. When Charles is placed on trial for the second time in France, Doctor Manette is the new person to accuse him. However, this evidence is letters Alexander wrote while imprisoned. The testimony stated that Doctor Manette was called to the residence of the Marquis and shown a woman who had been raped. The woman was repeating the same phrase over and over: “my husband, my father, and my brother! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hush!” (Dickens, 313). The good Doctor did what he could but was unable to save her. He also was presented a young man fatally wounded by a sword, who