A Tale of Two Cities

Lily Tikijian
September 22, 2009
Great Books Period 5
Mr. Priest

In book 1, chapter three, “he was on his way to dig someone out of a grave.” Jarvis Lorry having a fake conversation with Mr. Manette.

In this whole chapter, it refers to Jarvis Lorry having a dream about Dr. Manette. Dr. Manette is a ghost and has been in the ground for almost eighteen years. The chapter goes on to talk about how Dr. Manette was recalled to life and if he had lost hope that he was going to be dug out. He had. The importance of the saying, “He was on his way to dig someone out of the grave,” is that it refers to someone being “saved” or recalled to life. This is a foreshadow to what happens in the rest of the chapters. Dr. Manette was never actually dead; he was just missing and was “recalled” to life. When is says he was on his way to dig someone out of a grave, Lorry is going to safe Manette. He is going to help him to remember life and to teach him to try and rejoin the world as if nothing has ever happened. Manette had been “dug out of a grave” when he was released from prison and put up in the room where the winemaker was. Jarvis Lorry and Lucie were “digging” him out of this other grave he was in, the grave where he doesn’t remember anything about his life before these days. There going to help return to his old life and help him remember who he was and what he did. These words hold a lot of meaning in this whole book. This sentence is a foreshadow for what is to come in the next chapters.