The Substance Of the Shadow Nokrane Ahamadi

Chapter 9 Review• Mrs. Defarge is about to read a letter that was

found in the bastille at Dr Manette’s jail.

Significance Of Title• Title shows the “darkness” of the Evrémonde

family- events happening in the dark. • It shows the reason why Dr. Manette’s jail is so

dark and gloomy• The title can also express the evil of Mrs. Defarge

(the peak of Mrs. Defarge’s cruelty)

Characters• Dr. Manette• Mrs. Defarge• Patient 1• Patient 2 • Marquis St. Evrémonde • Charles Darney’s father• Wife of Marquis St. Evrémonde

Plot• Mrs. Defarge reads the letter Dr. Manette wrote in

the first 10 years in his cell. The letter explains why Dr. Manette was sentenced in the bastille

• In 1767, Dr. Manette walks in the road near midnight where 2 twins stopped him.

• They convince Alexandre Manette to take care of patients. The women has a scarf with the letter E

Plot 2• Dr. Manette sees a women that would cries “My husband,

my father and my brother!” She would then count to twelve

• He gives her medicine and tries to cure her • Dr. Manette finds another patient that is about 17 years old.

The patient lays with a stab wound that was caused by one of the twins

• The boy explains that the other patient is sister. He also express his hatred to the twins and expressing that he hated the “elder” brother the most.

• The boy says that his sister was “borrowed” from her husband

Plot 3 • The boy explained that the husband of his sister

sobbed twelve times and died. One of the brothers then rapes the girl.

• The second patient tells Dr. Manette that once he heard, he went home to get his younger sister. The boy also found his father dead.

• One of the twins saw the boy and wounds him. • Before the boy died, he curses Marquis (elder

twin).

Plot 4 • Dr. Manette goes back to the first patient and gives her

medicine. However she later died two hours before twelve. • The next day Dr. Manette gets gold from the twins and a

writes a letter to the court. • Elder twin’s wife sees Dr. Manette and reveille that their

last name is Evrémonde. She also makes Darney promise to justify what their family has done wrong

• Dr. Manette sends the letter but the twins read it. Therefore Dr. Manette is sent to jail• After the story the crowd at the court are all against Darney and he is sent to the guillotine the next day

Literary Devices• Metaphor- “You know, Doctor, that it is the Rights

of these Nobles to harness us common dogs to carts, and drive us” (page 337)

• Personification-…I was brought through my living grave” (page 344)

• Reversal Irony- good girls among us (page 336)

Essential Quote• “If it had pleased GOD to put it in the hard heart of

either of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife- so much as to let me know by a word whether alive or dead- I might have thought that He had not quite abandoned them. But, now I believe that the mark of the red cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in His mercies. And them and their descendants, to their race, I Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. I denounce them to Heaven and to earth” (page 344)

The End