Question

close reading organizer - book 2, chapter 21
directions: read each summary entry and think about which themes listed in the themes key apply to it, then color in those themes in the theme tracker. next, write a few sentences of analysis to explain how the themes you chose apply to each summary section.
themes key
1 tyranny and revolution
2 secrecy and surveillance
3 fate and history
4 sacrifice
5 resurrection
6 imprisonment
summary theme tracker your analysis
years pass. lucie weaves her \golden thread\ of positive influence through the family. she often sits by the parlor window and ponders the echoing footsteps rising from the street below. she gives birth to a daughter, lucie, who particularly likes sydney carton. her second child, a son, dies in childhood.
in the year 1789, distressing \echoes\ arrive from france. mr. lorry confides in charles that the paris office of tellsons bank has been flooded with anxious aristocrats trying to save their property.
the scene cuts to defarges wine - shop, now the center of a revolutionary maelstrom. the streets are thronged with dingy, angry people, armed with guns, knives, or any weapon they can get their hands on.

Explanation:

For the first summary about Lucie, no clear - cut theme from the key stands out strongly. For the second summary about Mr. Lorry's news from France with anxious aristocrats, the theme of Tyranny and Revolution can be applied as it relates to the unrest in France and the actions of the aristocrats trying to save their property. For the third summary about Defarge's wine - shop being a revolutionary meeting place, Tyranny and Revolution also applies due to the revolutionary atmosphere and the armed people.

Answer:

For the first summary: No clear theme.
For the second summary: Tyranny and Revolution.
For the third summary: Tyranny and Revolution.