Let go someone you love

One of my favorite topics is about the relationship between Dr.Manette and Lucie. When I read about how Lucie brought her father back to life, I was shocked because she never saw him but right at that moment when they saw each other, she already loved him and was ready to care about him. This is unbelievable! For example, even if I knew that I'm going to meet my father, I wouldn't be able to love him like Lucie did. Lucie was a strong young woman that loved her father, and couldn't leave him.

As I continued reading the second book, I imagined myself being Lucie for a moment. This situation that happened with her and her father made me feel sad. Lucie is getting married to Darnay which is a good thing for her because she can has a family, kids, and a new lifestyle. But in the other way she leaves her father, and it makes everything bad. When I read about the last night before Lucie was getting married, I got very emotional because I saw how Lucie tried really hard to not make her father sad, and she wanted to spend time with him every minute. She understood that everything is going to change the next day, and that she's not going be able to be with him all the time. Dr.Manette didn't want her to let go but he was a smart man who understood that she needs a good life, and she needs to enjoy her life.

The next day Lucie and Darnay got married, and went for a honeymoon. At that moment, Dr.Manette changed completely! Carton said that he's going to the Bank for two hours, and asked Miss Pross to watch Dr.Manette because he didn't feel very good. After Carton came back, him and Miss Pross heard Dr.Manette knocking. They went upstairs and saw him making shoes. He was making shoes for nine days, and the tenth day he stopped, and forgot about that. These nine days were like a block for him. He didn't remember what happened in those nine days, and for him, Lucie's wedding was like yesterday. It was so sad to read it because Lucie left, and for him it was like time in prison, bad memories.

This situation reminds me of God saying that we should love everyone, even our enemies! Lucie loved him even when she didn't know him, and this is a great example how we should love people that we don't know and our relatives.

Knitting

A Tale of Two Cities discusses the French Revolution and it gives us a lot of ideas about the political issues. There are a lot of things that symbolizes something else, and A Tale Of Two Cities filled with a lot of symbols.

In the second book it talks about knitting which plays an important role in this novel. There are two people that knit in this novel. Lucie knits to make a family out of a group who don't know each other in the beginning. Madame Defarge also knits, but it seems really dangerous because her knitting bring people to death. Knitting is a symbol for death in A Tale of Two Cities. Madame Defarge knits names and faces of who she she is going to kill.

I think Dickens uses "knitting" so that it will affect the lives of the main characters. "When the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate,". Madame Defarge just keep on knitting and standing there. While she knits, and what she is knitting will grow as characters' relationships. Madame Defarge is not really a caring person. We can clearly see that she cares only about herself and knitting, and she doesn't care about the poor people.

"Then she glanced in a casual manner round the wine-shop, took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit, and became absorbed in it,". I think this quote shows that Madame Defarge had emotions. She knows everything what is going around and she tries not to do anything about it but she's still knitting and knitting, and everything grow like the characters lives.

I've never thought that knitting can be a symbol of something. We can see that Charles Dickens is so detailed and he tries to make big things out of little. At first I thought "what can you tell about knitting?why is it important for the characters?" but then when you deeply read the two chapters about knitting, you can see what Charles wanted us to think about.

Fatherhood and Daughterhood

Could you love your father even though you've never know him? Can you love and care about him without any conditions? Lucie, Dr.Manette's daughter made this feat. She's never seen her father, and she couldn't imagine how he looked like. He didn't raise her, he has never played with her, they've never read books together or he never hold her hand. Sometimes we need some courage to do the same thing like Lucie did. She loved the image of her father, the person who she missed her whole life. She decided not to get mad at this situation that happened but give the not dissipated love to her father. She used every single moment appreciating that time that they're spending together. I think Lucie is a symbolic character, who loves her father no matter what happened in past. She is not only beautiful, but kind, and loving girl. For example, when Dr.Manette was recovering, Lucie putted her father's head on her chest. She stayed up with him nights after nights.

Like a daughter, she decided to give him all her care and love. Because of her love she returned he back to life. She "recalled him to life". Being with her, he started forgetting the past, he started to live his life again. I think he felt his daughters' love, and her love dwelled in his heart. Their first meeting was special for both of them.

This relationship with Father and daughter made me think a lot, and changed my heart because looking at this situation I can change my relationship with my father. Honestly, if I were Lucie, I wouldn't be able to act like her, to accept my father who's i've never seen, or to care about him. For me, it would take a lot of time to love him, and really try to give him the best.