The book A Tale of Two Cities and the movie Crash, both share a major and unexpected act of redemption in the end of each of the stories. In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Darwin, we see the character Sydney Carton “waste” his life for Charles Darnay, whom is sentenced to death during the French Revolution. By doing this Sydney is volunteering to die to save Charles Darnay’s family in an act of redemption. We see a similar act of redemption in the 2006 academy award winning Crash. In the end of this movie a carjacker (Anthony) takes a car without knowing there were slaves in the back of it. He shows up at his buyers garage and is offered a lot of money for the slaves, but Anthony instead lets the slaves free refusing the money, showing how much people can really change.
Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities gets redeemed in the end of the book because instead of letting Charles Darnay die and have his family lose him forever, Sydney stands in for Charles in the prison and is eventually executed for Charles. Sydney was at the beginning of the book viewed as an alcoholic and at the end of the book he was viewed as a hero. He did this because him …show more content…
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Darwin, we see a young man who had a lot of potential throw his life away and die by guillotine to save his friends family during the french revolution. Similarly in the movie Crash we see a carjacker steal a car with slaves hiding in the back and instead of selling them which is what we thought he would do, we see him let them free in the streets of LA. In both of these scenarios we see men redeem themselves by helping other people in some extreme and unexpected way that shocked the readers or the audience. Either way we can say that the change personality in the end of both of these stories was a good way to end the
Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities gets redeemed in the end of the book because instead of letting Charles Darnay die and have his family lose him forever, Sydney stands in for Charles in the prison and is eventually executed for Charles. Sydney was at the beginning of the book viewed as an alcoholic and at the end of the book he was viewed as a hero. He did this because him …show more content…
In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Darwin, we see a young man who had a lot of potential throw his life away and die by guillotine to save his friends family during the french revolution. Similarly in the movie Crash we see a carjacker steal a car with slaves hiding in the back and instead of selling them which is what we thought he would do, we see him let them free in the streets of LA. In both of these scenarios we see men redeem themselves by helping other people in some extreme and unexpected way that shocked the readers or the audience. Either way we can say that the change personality in the end of both of these stories was a good way to end the