Recalled To Life

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“Keep where you are because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.” (p. 6, Dickens) There are many people who will never get a second chance at life, but some will. In A Tale of Two Cities Mr. Darnay, a protagonist, was one of those who got multiple second chances. He was “recalled to life”. “Recalled to life” means that you get another chance, you earn back purpose. Darnay had multiple arrests, and was either saved or released after each trial. It’s safe enough to say that Mr. Darnay was “recalled to life.”
Mr. Darnay was recalled to life. There are three occasions when he had a second chance. The first one was when Darnay was fleeing France as an aristocrat. He was threatened with death if he didn’t flee;

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