Fode's Book Review No.2 - A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

This book talks about France and England and how much the people suffered in France in the eighteenth century.

In France there was a king and a queen and in England there was a king and queen. The problem was they believed that nothing would ever change. In France the people were poor, hungry and unhappy and they couldn’t say nor do anything.

Then began the French revolution and the rich aristocracy were being sent to the guillotine so they decided to escape to England and became emigrants. These emigrants particularly suffered because the new law of France stated that all emigrants must die. They were taken to the prison for nothing and most of them were sent to the guillotine. They couldn’t see their parents nor write them a letter.

There was one man called Darnay who went to England to work and got married with a Frenchwoman. When he came back from England to France, they took him to the prison because they thought he was an emigrant so he spent many years in prison for nothing.

One day he had been questioned by judges because they wanted to condemn him to death but he explained to them why he had gone to England.

If you want to find out what happens to Darnay, you will have to read the book.

It’s really interesting to read this book because you can learn a lot of things about France and how France was many years ago.



By Fode – 14/4/2008