Whats the story?

1) He lived a hard life growing up in London and he expresses a lot of his emotions through his novels. His emotions are hidden with in the characters personalities and they come out as the character comes to life. I read the biography of Dickens and I also read summaries of the novel to help have a better understanding. Also Dr. Preston's lecture gave more of an explanation of Dickens reason behind the novel.

 LECTURE NOTES
 - London and Paris during the Revolution
 - Frozen Deep (18..) First novel
- Sydne Carton - talented, sacrifices himself for love so she can be happily with her husband.
- Carton was originally going to be named Dick or Richard ( Dick an eco of Richard Wardo of The Frozen Deep) Parallelism *
 - 1858 public readings for profit
- London and Paris in Tail of Two Cities
- Experiences gave him an extensive and peculiar knowledge of the city.. He knew it all, place of rancidness and darkness as well as knowledge.
- London was his inspiration to keep writing.
 - London was a labyrinth  city of extremes in wealth and poverty
- 1854 visits Paris
- His visualization of both these cities would have to be that great use of location
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