Tale of Two Cities 2

Doctor Manette has begun to recieve patients "as his old reputation" and has recovered his "scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conductin gingenious experiments." Also, "in a corner [of his room], stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools." This shows the doctor's improvement back into having a normal life. Except the nightmares he has certain nights and the unnerving pacing that he does late at night. But, like always, his daughter is there to give him the comfort he needs to calm down, proving my forshadow from my last blog is still liable.

There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.

More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.