[Huda Mohammed 2010]

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chapter 12

a fatal attraction

the revolution spreads to the countryside and the chateau is burned to the ground. despite the pleas from the servants at the chateau, the local villagers burn it down and they threaten gabelle, the village officer. a further three years pass and the french revolution have successfully removed the ruling classes. Many of the french aristocracy have fled to england and tellson’s bank is the main source for obtaining information from france. A letter addressed to the marquis st. Evremonde surfaces and darnay learns of this. He reads the letter and it has come from gabelle who has been imprisoned. darnay feels guilty about gabelle’s imprisonment and decides to respond to his pleas for help. he believes that he can reason with the revolutionary forces and decides to depart for france alone. He is unaware of the dangers he will face and that he appears on mme. Defarge’s register. He believes he will be treated as a common man. He arranges for a letter to go to lucie and her father explaining the situation.
questions and discussions
compare between tellson’s bank befor and after the revolution.
before the revolution, the parcels would come and go easily as in business-like old england. But after the revolution everything is stopped. The branch of the bank in england became the meeting place of the frenchmen who fled to london. They used to come for doing business, meeting each other and knowing news about france.

why did mr lorry decide to take jerry with him in his journey to paris?
jerry has been his bodyguard on sunday nights for a long time past and mr lorry was used to him. Nobody will suspect jerry of being anything but an english bulldog or to have any thought in his head exept to defend his master.

what was the letter form?
the letter which darney received was from gabelle , the old servant to darney.

what has encouraged darney to travel to paris?
the urgent letter which was sent by gabelle and the danger in which a good , old sevant found himself. Gabelle asked him to return to save him from the revolutionists. They accused him of working for an emigrant against them. Gabelle tried to defend himself saying he was ordered to do good things to repay them but they didn't believe him. So he asked darney to come and save his life.

in fact this letter was a trick to attract darney to return to france again.

why did darney decide that neither lucie nor her father must know that he will go to paris until he was gone?
he did not like to make lucie suffer the pain of seperation.
as for dr manette, darney knew well that the doctor didn't like to remember that dreatful land (paris) which would remind him of his old sad memories in the bastille..

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