Cason Kerrick
Mr. Scanlon
Honors English 10
June 5, 2017 A Tale of Two Cities Our group decided to make a board game as our group project. First, we brainstormed and came up with an idea. Then we bought supplies and designed the game. Our game’s setting is when Mr. Lorry, Charles Darnay, Little Lucie, Dr. Manette and Lucie Manette are fleeing Paris for London. The goal is to reach London first, fleeing Paris. Along the way are various symbols representing major themes in the novel. Some of these symbols include a guillotine, the broken wine casks, a Jail, and the Marquis’s carriage. At the start of the board is the guillotine symbolizing what is happening when the group is leaving. Near the guillotine is a Stickman symbolizes the character Sydney Carton. Dickens writes, “It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. (P.386) We included this in the beginning to highlight the purpose of the game. Consequently, it …show more content…
Dickens explains the carriage by saying, “the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching each other and clutching children out of its way” (P. 15) Dickens includes this to illustrate how the French aristocracy could do anything they wanted with no recollection of the human life the endangered. Moreover, in the beginning of the novel he says “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”(P. 7) In short, he was showing how there was a need for a
Mr. Scanlon
Honors English 10
June 5, 2017 A Tale of Two Cities Our group decided to make a board game as our group project. First, we brainstormed and came up with an idea. Then we bought supplies and designed the game. Our game’s setting is when Mr. Lorry, Charles Darnay, Little Lucie, Dr. Manette and Lucie Manette are fleeing Paris for London. The goal is to reach London first, fleeing Paris. Along the way are various symbols representing major themes in the novel. Some of these symbols include a guillotine, the broken wine casks, a Jail, and the Marquis’s carriage. At the start of the board is the guillotine symbolizing what is happening when the group is leaving. Near the guillotine is a Stickman symbolizes the character Sydney Carton. Dickens writes, “It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. (P.386) We included this in the beginning to highlight the purpose of the game. Consequently, it …show more content…
Dickens explains the carriage by saying, “the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching each other and clutching children out of its way” (P. 15) Dickens includes this to illustrate how the French aristocracy could do anything they wanted with no recollection of the human life the endangered. Moreover, in the beginning of the novel he says “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.”(P. 7) In short, he was showing how there was a need for a