A Tale of Two Cities

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Text title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author/Director: Charles Dickens
Text Type: Extended text

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris in 1859 during the French revolution. While reading you can picture in your mind how life during revolution was before and the amount of order and protection to justify much nationality gloat, and how families were cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture and belongings. It describes the lives of several protagonists through these events. Mainly Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton.

Some of the literary features of this book is the opening sentence which has a lot of metaphors, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief...,...we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way." The book also has a lot of alliteration for example "Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight". There are many other literary features in this book and i think they are really affective in the story because they introduce the sense of suspense they also let you understand the story more. What I have done that is similar to the characters is that I have stood for my right in many situations in my life, whether it was at school or in normal everyday life. But I wouldn’t connect any character to me, because all the characters in the book are adults who have gone through a lot in their lives. Although I would like to have Sydney Carton as a friend to his acts in the story and how he should his braveness and scarification for the people he loves.