1. English 9(1) Ms. Botelho Ms. Janson Mr. Gorman

2.  1) At what place does this chapter begin?  2) What color cap is the mender of roads wearing?  3) To what group/club does this visitor belong?  4) Where do the soldiers put the tall man who had had hid under the Marquis’s carriage? They display him in the town in a________.

4. Defarge’s wine shop seems quite grim. A combination of hard times and bad wine has left the inhabitants somber and depressed. Despite the surroundings, people still come in, some as early as 6am.

5. As of late, many people come in to Defarge’s wine shop to obtain information and share thoughts,although they could not afford a glass of wine.

6. “A suspended interest and a prevalent absence of mind, were perhaps observed by the spies who looked in at the wine-shop.” Looking from the outside in, it appears the customers discuss little and have no interest in anything in particular. If this was the case, why would so many come to the shop if they could not afford a drink?

7. Defarge returns with the mender of roads. Once again, attention is drawn to the blue cap. “I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jacques.” A fellow revolutionary?

8. Meanwhile three men leave without parting words. No worries… Madame Defarge has been busy knitting.

9. Defarge offers the mender of roads an apartment. “You shall see the apartment that I told you you could occupy...” “Out of the wine- shop into the street, out of the street into a courtyard, out of the courtyard up a steep staircase, out of the staircase into a garret...”

10. Upstairs, Defarge and the mender of roads encounter Jacques 1, 2, and 3...possibly the same three who left the wine shop. Defarge refers to himself as Jacques 4 and the road mender as Jacques 5.

11. The mender of roads tells the Jacques about the man suspended under the Marquis carriage. He was able to escape and had been mysteriously missing for nine months. Defarge replies: “No matter, the number,” said Defarge. “He is well hidden, but at last he is unluckily found. Go on!”

12. Jacques 5, the mender of roads, tells the others he saw the mysterious man bound and led by 6 soldiers, evidently walking him to his death. Jacques hears a soldier say, “Bring him fast to his tomb!” How original... He must have read the letter!

13. The description of the death walk mirrors Jesus Christ’s. “They laugh and pick him up again. His face is bleeding and covered with dust, but he cannot touch it; thereupon they laugh again. They bring him into the village; all the village runs to look;”

14. The man was locked in a cage for days in sight of the whole village.

15. “They say that petitions have been presented in Paris, showing that he was enraged and made mad by the death of his child; they say that a petition has been presented to the King himself. What do I know? It is possible. Perhaps yes, perhaps no.” Reflect: Who killed the Marquis? Who else petitioned the king for a prisoner’s release? Were either of them successful?

16. Jacques says, “It is Defarge whom you see here, who, at the hazard of his life, darted out before the horses, with the petition in his hand.”

17. The guards surrounded Defarge and beat him.

18. The soldiers hung Gaspard’s body 40 feet above the fountain in the St. Antoine district. The mender of roads says the water is poisoned.

19. After a short consideration, the Jacques decide to put the chateau and the entire family on the list, a list for extermination. Which family is registered? Why? Which characters are part of this family? Think who else may be involved... though a potential marriage...

20. Defarge ensures the Jacques that his wife’s registry is both safe and secure. The code could never be deciphered.

21. Defarge fulfills the mender of roads’ request to see the king and queen. The Jacques think this may be dangerous, but Defarge says it will make him thirst more for revolution. Meanwhile, “Madame sat all day at her counter, so expressly unconscious of him, and so particularly determined not to perceive that his being there had any connection with anything below the surface.” Maybe there is another plan for the mender of roads...

22. Defarge tells the mender of roads that his responsibility to the revolution is to continue to fool the crown into believing that the third class estate remains loyal subjects.

23. The mender of roads finds the nerve to question Madame Defarge’s knitting practice. Although he fears the woman, he asks what she knits. Madame responds, “Shrouds.”