Chapter 5, Book 2: The Jackal

1. Chapter 5, Book 2: The Jackal By: Mayank Patel

2. Characters • Sydney Carton • Mr. Stryver • Lucie Manette

3. Summary • Sydney Carton and his friend Mr. Stryver are working together on legal cases. Carton is doing almost all of the work while Mr. Stryver is getting drunk • After they finish the work, the two talk about the past where Carton would write Stryver’s papers instead of him doing it himself and how Stryver has advanced in life and his profession why Carton is behind even though Carton is clearly the smarter one • Mr. Stryver and Sydney then talk about the case. Stryver thinks Lucie is beautiful while Carton says she is just a doll and does not think she is beautiful • When Carton goes to bed, his pillow becomes “wet with wasted tears”(95)

4. Literary Devices • Simile: “Carton was rumored to be seen at broad day, going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodging like a dissipated cat” (90) • Charles Dickens is comparing Carton to a cat that overindulges itself in pleasures by using “like” • Metaphor: “She was a golden-haired doll!” (94) • Sydney was referring to Lucie, and was comparing Lucie to be as stupid as a doll without using like or as. • Personification: “There were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him” (95) • Loves and graces are not humans or living things that can look upon a person

5. Essential Quote “How do I do what I do?” (said Stryver) “Party through paying me to help you, I suppose. But it’s not worth your while to apostrophize me, or the air, about it; what you want to do, you do. You were always in the front rank and I was always behind.” (Said Sydney) (Page 93)