https://padlet.com/giglioalessandra30/r392jofb15qh summary of the graded reading version en-us 2020-03-25 14:55:28 UTC 2024-12-30 20:05:01 UTC hello@padlet.com peppog02 https://padlet.com/giglioalessandra30/r392jofb15qh/wish/484144924 Chapter one
Giuseppe Ferzola

The novel A Tale of Two cities  is set partly in France and partly in England in 1775.
This was age marked by a very harsh and controversial climate, as we can understand from the opening lines of A Tale of Two cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" 
referring to the big contrasts characterizing the Victorian Age.
In France, the expenses of the nobles were excessive, and the contrast with the extreme poverty in which poor people were forced to live, brought to a ruthless and bloody violence.
While in England, the situation was different;
This does not mean that the British social climate was happy, because although it was not characterized by violence, the social contrasts and the wide gap existing between the rich and the poor was becoming difficult to be managed even there; the government and the rich feared that the English society could be influenced by what was happening in France.
In the first chapter we read of a message sent by Jerry Cruncher of the Tellson's Bank for Mr. Lorry, asking him to wait in Dover for a young lady, that he actually met on the next day. This young lady was Miss Manette, who 20 years before was brought by Mr. Lorry from France to England, where she was helped by Tellson's Bank and she was said that her father had died. Her father hadn't actually died and this was the message that Mr. Lorry had for her.

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Lisa Alberto]]> 2020-04-15 13:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/giglioalessandra30/r392jofb15qh/wish/508448163 giglioalessandra30 https://padlet.com/giglioalessandra30/r392jofb15qh/wish/519890913 Chapter Seven 
Morello Gaetano

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Chapter 3 
“A trial in London-1780”

The chapter opens with the description of Tellson’s Bank in the city of London.  It was an old, dark and ugly building.  It smelled of dust and old papers and even the people who worked there looked old and dusty.  Outside the building there was Jerry Cruncher, who carried messages for people in the bank.  One morning he had to go to the  Old Bailey to collect an important message from Mr. Lorry.  Trials at the Old Bailey were for very dangerous criminals.  The criminal on trial was Charles Darnay on that day, accused of spying on the French. While John Barsad accused  Charles, a girl with her father, Miss and Doctor Manette, spoke in favor of the boy. The girl is asked if she saw Charles talking to the French and holding some sheets.  During the trial, a red-haired boy claims to have seen the prisoner in a hotel with French soldiers, but he is silenced after pointing out the physical likeliness between Charles and Mr. Carton.  At the end of the trial Charles is declared free.  Doctor Manette and his daughter went home.
Miss Manette has always had a comfortable life.  She lived with her father and a maid, Miss Pross.  Miss Pross had always been a good friend but she complained about the many visitors who were at home every day, these people were actually  Darnay and Carton, who were both in love with Miss Manette.
Alfredo Pejrani

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Chapter 10
Michelangelo De Lisa
In December 1757, two noblemen sought out Doctor Alexandre Manette and requested his medical expertise. Secretly taking him to a country house outside Paris, the men who Doctor Manette observed were twin brothers ordered the Doctor to care for a delirious young peasant woman and her dying brother. The woman's brother told the Doctor that the noblemen had raped the woman and caused the deaths of the woman's husband and father. After taking a second, younger sister to safety, the young man came after the noblemen who held his sister captive. One of the brothers stabbed him, mortally wounding him. As the peasant man died, he cursed the brothers and their family line, signaling the curse with a cross of blood. The peasant woman died shortly afterward, and the brothers instructed Doctor Manette to remain silent about the incident. Troubled by what he had witnessed, the Doctor decided to write a letter reporting the episode to the Court. Before he delivered the letter, however, the older twin's wife visited him, revealing that the brothers' family name was Evrémonde. The woman explained that she hoped the Doctor could help her to find the surviving member of the peasant family the younger sister whom the young man had taken away. When the Doctor was unable to help her, she told her young son, Charles, to pledge himself to righting the wrong committed by his uncle and father. Doctor Manette then personally delivered the letter and that night was kidnapped and secretly jailed by the Evrémonde brothers, who had seen his letter. At the end, the Doctor denounced the Evrémonde family. After the document has been read, the courtroom erupts into bloodthirsty cries against Darnay, and the jury sentences Darnay to death on the following day.]]> 2020-05-12 15:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/giglioalessandra30/r392jofb15qh/wish/567916914