C Answer these questions.
1. Describe the shoemaker in your own words.
2. List the words from paragraphs 1 and 2 that indicate that the shoemaker had been in
captivity for many years.
3. How do we know that the old man's health and appearance had been neglected for a lo
time?
4. How did Defarge get the prisoner to speak?
5. Why wasn't the girl afraid of the shoemaker?
6. What could be the relationship between the young lady and the shoemaker?
Did he recognize her?
Answers
C. Answer these questions :
1. Describe the shoemaker in your own words.
→ The shoemaker looked weak, whitered and pale. He had a hollow face with bright eyes and dark eyebrows. His beard was grey and his face was extremely thin.
2. List the words from paragraphs 1 and 2 that indicate that the shoemaker had been in captivity for many years.
→ His body looked 'whitered and worn'. He had 'stayed in seclusion from direct sunlight'. These words prove that the shoemaker had been kept in prison for a long time.
3. How do we know that the old man's health and appearance had been neglected for a long time?
→ We know that the shoemaker had been neglected because he wore ragged clothes, looked worn and whitered and he had became unused to direct sunlight.
4. How did Defarge get the prisoner to speak?
→ Defarge got the prisoner to speak by constantly evolving memories and getting his acquaintance to meet him further, he constantly conversed with him so that he could react and answer.
5. Why wasn't the girl afraid of the shoemaker?
→ The girl was not afraid of the shoemaker because she knew him from before and therefore knew that he was not harmful.
6. What could be the relationship between the young lady and the shoemaker? Did he recognize her?
→ The young lady was perhaps the shoemaker’s daughter. The fact that the shoemaker didn’t react adversely on seeing her meant that he had recognized her.