OMG!

In the text in Part 2 Chapter 2, I found a particular section in the text that I found I understood completely. Although as we all know Dickens writes with such difficult sentence stucture and words, I feel as though this scene was a break through for me. When the Attorney-General is asking questions to Mr. Lorry, I felt like this was a part in the novel that made sense.

'"Mr Jarvis Lorry, are you a clerk at Tellson's Bank?"'
"'I am."'
"'On a certain Friday night in November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, did business occasion you to travel between London and Dover by the mail?"'
"'It did."'...(71).


This is just part of the passage that I understood. I first understood the scene leading up to this event. I understood that they were in a courthouse to try and figure out if Darnay was innocent or guilty. I then, although the passage was hard, using words like occasion as a verb and referencing the year in literal numbers, made sense of what the passage was trying to tell me. Once I figured out what was going on in this passage, there was still something that felt distant to me. I just at first could not completely comprehend what Dickens was trying to say when Mr Attorney-General said, '"Did they alight on the road in the course of the night?"'(71). After reading where this sentence was in the context and the response to the question, I figured out that this question meant, did the people at the Dover mail confront you during that night. Now, this making sense to me, I could fully analyze this passage and make sense of it. This, I believe, was a big moment where I felt I fully understood what Dickens was trying to say, which helped me keep reading and understanding more of the reading assignment.