Lecture's inspiration...

           Recently we’ve started a new chapter of our coursebook. There was a small fragment from the Great expectations by Chares Dickens. As such you are familiar now with this plot I just want to tell you something about my favourite Dickens's book, apart from the christmas serie of course. It’s A tale of two cities. I’ve seen various versions of this book on a bookshelves some longer, some shorter. That’s crazy when you find a great book that it's shortened. Dickens is about details, he wrote as if he was a painter: he was building book stories with details like the exact look of buildings, weather, clothes or gestures of characters. That is why we could imagine his imaginary world so close to his intentions. Now, when it comes to the language of his books, it can say something more about each character due to differences in dialogues between educated ones, the ones that have grown up in the countryside or the ones that English hasn’t been their native language. It makes Dickens's books so interesting. Next thing that makes his book fascinating is crossing stories of characters. We read about somebody with no clue that after a while this person will be a key character to the whole story. Every single plot seems to be planned with attention and everything makes sense in the end. While reading we just uncover next puzzle that makes us be attent. As for A tale of two cities, I love Sydney Carton in every single detail of his personality. Knowing that his life is already wasted he sacrificed himself for the love of his life - Lucy, by being switched in the prison with Lucy’s husband sentenced to death. You may ask why no one seemed to notice the fact that the prisoner had changed. It is simple… they looked alike but there were particular differences between them like the way of speaking, gestures or posture. I think that the thing that makes this book so beautiful is the change of Sydney from a man, often drunk and weak into a rave, fearless and whose strength was love to Lucy. I hope that maybe some of you’ll get interest in this book, for me so worth reading. 

Sydney Carton quotations from devianart