Read a part of a story called A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Retell the story on behalf of Mr Lorry. Begin your retelling with: Hello! My name’s Jarvis Lorry. I work…
Read a part of a story called A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Retell the story on behalf of Mr Lorry. Begin your retelling with: Hello! My name’s Jarvis Lorry. I work for…The plan below can help you to organize your speech. Record your speech and send it for assessment. (8-12 sentences) I was travelling to …; My messenger…; I spent the night…; Miss Lucie Manette…; She was…; She believed that…; When she heard the news, she… A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens It was the year 1775. A coach is taking Mr Jarvis Lorry from London to Dover. A man on a horse rides up to the coach. A man looked out of the window of the coach. He was about sixty years old and he wore old-fashioned clothes. He saw the rider and asked, ‘What news do you bring, Jerry?’ ‘Do you know this man, sir?’ asked the coach driver. ‘There are robbers on this road’. ‘I know him’, replied the old man. ‘His name is Jerry Cruncher. He has come from my bank. Jerry Cruncher is a messenger, not a robber’. ‘Here is a letter for you, Mr Lorry’, the messenger said. ‘Mr Tellson wants you to wait at the Royal George Inn at Dover. A young lady will travel to Paris with you.’ ‘Thank you, Jerry,’ Mr Lorry said. He took the letter. ‘I will wait in Dover. Good night’. Mr Lorry waited at the Royal George Inn at Dover. Miss Lucie Manette arrived the next day. She was about eighteen years old and she had long golden hair. ‘Miss Manette’, said Mr Lorry, ‘I work for Tellson’s Bank. There is a Tellson’s Bank in London and a Tellson’s bank in Paris. I often travel between the two cities.’ ‘Twenty years ago, your father came to Tellson’s bank in Paris’, said Mr Lorry. ‘He left some money in the bank’. ‘Yes’, said Lucie Manette. ‘My father went to prison and he died. My mother brought me to England. I was very young. I have lived in England all my life. But my mother taught me French’. ‘My mother died a few years ago’, Lucie said. ‘And Tellson’s Bank took care of me.’ ‘Your father went to prison’, Mr Lorry said. ‘But he did not go to court. There was no trial’. ‘That’s right’, said Lucie. ‘My father died in prison’. ‘No, my dear’, said Mr Lorry. ‘I have news of your father. He did not die in prison. He is alive and he is living in Paris. I will take you to see him’. Lucie Manette put her hand to her face. ‘Miss Pross!’ she said loudly. Then she fainted. coach: a carriage pulled by horses old-fashioned: the opposite of modern inn: an old-fashioned hotel golden: fair hair colour, similar to gold court: a place where trials are decided trial: an examination or discussion to decide if someone is guilty of a crime fainted: to lose consciousness and fall down
To retell the story on behalf of Mr. Jarvis Lorry from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens, we can organize the speech using the provided plan with 8-12 sentences.
Hello! My name’s Jarvis Lorry. I work for Tellson’s Bank. I was traveling from London to Dover when a man named Jerry Cruncher, a messenger from my bank, approached the coach. He handed me a letter from Mr. Tellson, instructing me to wait at the Royal George Inn in Dover where a young lady, Miss Lucie Manette, would accompany me to Paris.
I spent the night at the inn, awaiting Miss Manette's arrival the following day. She was a delicate eighteen-year-old with long golden hair. As we conversed, I informed her about her father's past association with Tellson’s Bank in Paris and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and supposed death. Lucie revealed that her mother had passed away, and she had been cared for by the bank since then.
Surprisingly, I shared with Lucie the incredible news that her father was, in fact, alive and residing in Paris. Overwhelmed by this revelation, Lucie called out for Miss Pross before fainting at the unexpected turn of events.
In summary, Mr. Lorry's encounter with Miss Lucie Manette at the Royal George Inn marked the beginning of a significant journey that would unravel long-kept secrets and reunite a daughter with her supposedly deceased father.
