TS: Charles Dickens really took his time portraying the moment between Lucie and her father. SD: Reuniting with your father after many years of thinking he is dead is no easy chore, but Lucie and Mr. Manette dealt with it like anyone would, using their tears. CM: Lucy constantly repeated the words “weep for it, weep for it!” (Dickens, 48), trying to get her father to remember everything he used to have. CM: They both were completely filled with tears, realizing how much they truly needed to be brought back together. SD: Dickens uses antithesis to bring out this moment to the readers. CM: When he says “A sight so touching, yet so terrible in the tremendous wrong and suffering which had gone before it,” (Dickens, 48) really shows us how hard it must have been to watch something like this happening right before your eyes. CM: It is such a hard moment to explain, so much suffering, so many tears of joy, too difficult to comprehend, never enough tears to show what they are truly going through. (Coordinate Cumulative Sentence). SD: Lastly, Dickens employs metaphors into his writing. CM: He is talking about the true connection happening between Lucie and her father when he says,"His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair, which warned and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him” (Dickens, 48). CM: Mr. Manette feels free while being in the arms of his daughter after 20 years of waiting. CS: Dickens makes me even become emotional by describing this in such ways that I feel as if I’m there.
TS: My dad has been in my life ever since I was born, and I couldn't imagine reuniting with him after 20 years of thinking he's dead; I would be feeling many emotions. SD: First of all, I would be overjoyed to figure out my dad was alive. CM: Family is vital to me, and I like being around them as much as possible. CM: I especially need my parents because they do so much for me, and for me to figure out my dad is still living; it would improve my life immensely. SD: I'd also be feeling dejected knowing that my father had been missing from my life for a whole 20 years. CM: I'd be filled with sadness since I had missed out on all of the father-son bonding when I was younger. CM: Not only that, but a son needs his father to teach him all he needs to know when becoming an adult, leaving me without that knowledge. SD: Lastly, I would be infuriated, always wanting to know everything, always keeping a straight face, always holding it in, never letting the emotions do the talking (Coordinate Cumulative Sentence). CM: I would confront whoever lied to me about his death even though I know they did it for my own good. CM: I'd need to to know why my father had left my life, while unknowingly still alive to my surprise after 20 years. TS: This happening to me for real would be incomprehensible to think about because I need my father throughout my entire life; not just the second half of it.
1) I felt a lot of emotion from this part of the book, being without a father for 20 years just really got to me. 2) Dickens describes certain sections of his books so well I have a hard time not feeling anything from reading them. 3) He finds ways to put the readers in the position of the character and make us think about if we were in their role. 4) I wouldn't want to be one of Dickens characters because they have to go through so much.
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Self-Assessment
1) I'm continuing to work on not using comma splices. I'm still learning to use my semi colons to avoid the comma splices.
2) I really love the first paragraph. I worked very hard on making it interesting to the reader because I really liked writing it and reading it over.
3) My second paragraph isn't nearly as strong as my first, but my first one really carries he entire essay.
4) I would give myself a B-.
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