Book 2 Chapter 21: Echoing Footsteps

1. Book 2 Chapter 21: Echoing Footsteps

2. Significance of Title • The people in Lucie’s life • Foreshadows the storming of the Bastille

3. Plot Summary • Takes place many years later • Carton has become almost an uncle to Lucie’s children • Stryver is married with 3 kids • Stryver asks Darnay to teach his kids, but Darnay refuses • Jumps over to France • Storming of the Bastille is in the final steps of preparation • Defarge’s wineshop is still center for revolutionary activities • Bastille is stormed • Defarge and the Jacques go to 105 North Tower, Dr. Manette’s old cell

4. Literary Devices • Imagery: “With a roar that sounded as if all the breath in France had been shaped into the detested word, the living sea rose, wave on wave, depth on depth, and overflowed the city to that point. Alarm-bells ringing, drums beating, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attack began.” (223-224) • Metaphor: “So resistless was the force of the ocean bearing him on, that even to draw his breath or turn his head was as impracticable as if he had been struggling in the surf at the South Sea” (225) • Foreshadowing: “Seven prisoners released, seven gory heads on pikes…” (230)

5. Essential Quote “Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody’s life, footsteps not easily made clean again if once stained red…” (222)