A week later the Revolutionaries knew that Foulon, a hated official who told them to eat grass, is still alive and has been captured. Foulon said that the starving people should eat grass. Mme. Defarge leads a mob to the hotel where Foulon is being held. There, she stuffs his mouth full of grass and hangs him from a lamppost. When he eventually dies they tore and put his head and heart on spears. They also capture Foulon’s son-in-law placing his head and heart on spears. The mobs are happy and hopeful for the future. Despite the pleas from the servants at the chateau, the local villagers burn it down and they threaten Gabelle, the village officer.
Questions and discussions
1-who is the Vengeance?
She is one of the revolutionists. She is short rather stout woman and a shopkeeper by trade.
2-who is Foulon? And why has he got a reason to fear the revolutionists?
He was one of the responsible people in the country. He is the one who told the starving poor peole to eat grass instead of all sorts of food which they didn’t have. He has a reason to fear them because he knew that he was an aggressor to say such thing as the poor people have the same rights which the rich have.
3- describe the way that Foulon treated in.
They brought him to the lamp,dragged and stuck at him with bunches of straw and grass that were pushed into his face. They torn and bleeded him and he was begging them for mercy. Women screamed at him, men called out for him to have grass stuffed in his mouth. They threw a rope over the lamp and put it round his neck. They pulled him up and after three times of trying to hung him , the rope held him and it was done.
4- describe the countryside after the revolution.
The countryside was ruined. Every green leaf,every blabe of grass and grain was dry and poor as the miserable people. Everything was bent, oppressed and broken. Houses, fences, animals, men, women, children and
the earth – all worn out