Redemption In Charles Dickens Tale Of Two Cities

There are two paths that can be chosen in every single person in his life no matter the time or area, everyone has a choice between good and bad. Whether you choose a good or sinful life it is up to the person, there's always time to fix or change the outcome of your life and receive redemption for any sins. there is an outcome for either path, you can either be remembered by doing something to save others and forever be remembered or that or you can live a lonely life with nothing good to your name. That's what redemption does for you, it gives your life meaning. Redemption is possible for anyone but in order to achieve it some degree of risk to save another person is necessary. In Dickens Novel, ‘Tale of Two cities’ Sydney Carton gave up his life for a more important reason then his own life and by that he redeemed his own life. While in the movie ‘Crash’ Anthony didn't go as far as give up his life but he made up for stealing cars and running over a guy, by saving a group of people from starving or getting sold off. In Dicken’s ‘Tale of Two Cities’ Novel, Sydney Carton had the potential to live his best life and have a loving family instead of being alone, but he had lost all opportunity of that by …show more content…
He chose a path of stealing cars with his literal ‘partner in crime’ Peter Waters, at one point in the movie they ran over another guy leading him to be sent to a hospital. While Peter Waters never lived long enough to experience redemption, his ‘other half’, Anthony went back to the van they previously stole to sell it while in the act he discovered a group of immigrants locked in a cage in the back, having to decline a great deal of money for the people he decided to set them free and save them from being sold. By doing this, he had made an impact on all those people and prevented them from living a terrible life, he balance out all the crimes with something that helped a number of