A Tale of Two Cities
Now REREAD the passage and then write a paragraph in which you explain why these seemingly unimportant comments about language are an important key to understanding the centrality of the passage to the plot of the novel.
In a tale of two cities book 3 chapter 12 when carton enters the deafarge wine shop.
the passage is from " As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered." to " The English customer was not without his reflections then, that it might be a good deed to seize that arm, lift it, and strike under it sharp and deep."