This picture is a scene from Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities
In this chapter I think Charles Dicken's is foreshadowing the later topic of poverty and the reasons for the French Revolution. Dicken's writes, "All the people within reach had suspended their business or idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine" (Dicken's 20). After a barrel of wine had fallen and broken, everyone in he streets stopped to drink it off of the ground. These people are so desperate they jump at the chance to drink wine off of the street. Another example is when Dicken's writes, " ... And the forehead of the woman who had just nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again." (Dicken's 21). This shows how desperate these people were. This mother took her head wrap off of her head, soaked it in wine, and then wrung it out into her baby's mouth. She gave wine to her baby because she had no way of getting water and her baby needed something. The last example, " It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes" (Dicken's 21). These people living on the streets in Paris don't have she's and if they do they are wooden. Probably made poorly by themselves or friends. These people are among the many poor in Franc at this time and as we already know the French Revolution was a poor people uprising resulting in beheading s of the King and Queen. This scene is most likely foes adoring the start of the French Revolution :
In this chapter I think Charles Dicken's is foreshadowing the later topic of poverty and the reasons for the French Revolution. Dicken's writes, "All the people within reach had suspended their business or idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine" (Dicken's 20). After a barrel of wine had fallen and broken, everyone in he streets stopped to drink it off of the ground. These people are so desperate they jump at the chance to drink wine off of the street. Another example is when Dicken's writes, " ... And the forehead of the woman who had just nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again." (Dicken's 21). This shows how desperate these people were. This mother took her head wrap off of her head, soaked it in wine, and then wrung it out into her baby's mouth. She gave wine to her baby because she had no way of getting water and her baby needed something. The last example, " It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes" (Dicken's 21). These people living on the streets in Paris don't have she's and if they do they are wooden. Probably made poorly by themselves or friends. These people are among the many poor in Franc at this time and as we already know the French Revolution was a poor people uprising resulting in beheading s of the King and Queen. This scene is most likely foes adoring the start of the French Revolution :
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