Esmeralda Vs Lucie Manette Research Paper

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Kate Keating #3

Ms. McCully

English

12/13/14

Esmeralda vs. Lucie Manette

Have you ever felt bad for a person that is made fun of just for being different? Esmeralda felt bad for Quasimodo in Hunch Back Of Notre Dame. Quasimodo was the same as everyone else, but people treated him like he was dirt just because he looked different and didn’t look like how the world expects us too. People thought Quasimodo had an ugly face and a hump on his back. They crowned him “king of fools”. When he snuck out to go to the festival where they crowned him king of fools, he hid his face so that people were not cruel to him. But when his clothing that was hiding his face fell off people started throwing stuff at him and calling him a “monster”. So when Esmeralda
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That it doesn’t matter how you look, there is always going to be people that find something to pick on you for. I think it was also to show that we are all different and none of us are perfect and that it doesn’t matter how you look it matters about what is on the inside, it’s your heart that matters. It did really good showing the inside of Quasimodo and that he had a good heart and his intentions were good. It also showed that Esmeralda had a good heart. She was beautiful but that doesn’t determine if her heart is good or hard. It was also to show how the world doesn’t look on the inside. They look to see if you are beautiful that is why we get so caught up in how we look.

In the end of Hunch Back Of Notre Dame the world accepted Quasimodo just the way he was. They didn’t care if he looked different from everyone else. They cared about the good intentions Quasimodo had. They could also see his good heart. He wasn’t the ‘monster’ they thought he was. No one called him names anymore. Before when everyone was mean to him, he could not go out of his tower. But in the end he could go outside without having to hide himself. He lived happily ever after and was ok with who he
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Then, one morning guards came to their house and took Charles away to prison. Charles was sentenced to execution. Mr. Carton and Charles’ father made a plan to get Charles out before his execution. They went to the prison and Sydney talked to Charles without telling him his plan. He snuck up and put Charles to sleep by pouring a sleeping medicine in his mouth. The guards thought he was dead and then they took Charles’ “dead” body out. Sydney swapped places with Charles. Sydney is now in prison to get executed. When they got Lucie’s husband into the carriage she didn’t know it was going to be her husband. When she saw it was him she started to cry. They took him to France without telling anyone, to get him out of there. Lucie thought back to when Sydney told her that “he would do anything for her and her family” and she knew he was the one that got her husband out of prison from getting

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