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Book 2 Chapter 13 “The Fellow of No Delicacy”

Book 2 Chapter 13 “The Fellow of No Delicacy”. B y: Julia Cook. Significance of title. The title is referring to Sydney Carton’s personality . Like the previous chapter, it is also ironic. Mr. S tryver was considered a man with delicacy, yet he was egotistical and rude.

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Book 2 Chapter 13 “The Fellow of No Delicacy”

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  1. Book 2 Chapter 13“The Fellow of No Delicacy” By: Julia Cook

  2. Significance of title • The title is referring to Sydney Carton’s personality. • Like the previous chapter, it is also ironic. • Mr. Stryver was considered a man with delicacy, yet he was egotistical and rude. • Sydney Carton was considered a man with no delicacy, yet he opened up to Lucie and showed he can actually care for someone other than himself.

  3. Plot summary • When Carton visits the Manette house, he surprises Lucie by opening up to her and crying about his life. • Like Dr. Manette, Carton had been imprisoned in his own depression due to a traumatic experience he had when he was younger. • Carton says that his life was over long ago, but Lucie tells him she truly believes he can change and have a better life, and that she wants to try to help him as best she can. • Carton explains to Lucie that he loves her, yet he doesn’t want Lucie to cause her unhappiness. Carton asks Lucie for one thing: for Lucie to admit that there is still something in him to sympathize for. Lucie admits, and Carton tells Lucie he would do anything, even risk his own life, for her and her family.

  4. Literarydevices • Irony: Carton is shown and described as a man who doesn’t care about anything, yet when he visits Lucie, he opens up to her and starts crying. • “When he cared to talk, he talked well; but, the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.” pg.150 • Metaphor: Carton compares himself to a heap of ashes to show how he feels about Lucie and falling in love with her. • “And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into a fire..” pg.153

  5. Essential quote • “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me.” P.152

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