“Book the Second: The Golden Thread”

By the time you have read to the end of Book the First, you should have no problem identifying who “The Golden Thread” is. Write that character’s name beside the title of “Book the Second.”

“Book the Second: The Golden Thread”

“Book the Second”: Chapter 1“Five Years Later”

(pp. 53-59)

Setting: TIME

Determine from the title of the chapter what the time setting of this chapter is. Write that year in the white space of the page.

Setting: PLACE

“Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar”

Setting: PLACE

“Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar”

Is Tellson’s Bank fictional or nonfictional?

Setting: PLACE

Tellson’s Bank is fictional; however, Temple Bar was VERY real.

Book the Second, Chapter 1“The Golden Thread” p. 53

Temple Bar:

an arched gateway to London where the government

sometimes displayed the heads

of the executed.

Dickens juxtaposes a fictional element (Tellson’s Bank) with a nonfictional element (Temple Bar).

Which of the five Essential Questions on your unit organizer does this knowledge help you address?

Essential Question #1:

How do authors—particularly Dickens—effectively utilize historical settings, people, and events to create verisimilitude in their own fictional stories?

Satire is defined as irony or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.

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Targeted Standard: RD-H-1.0.1 Analyze the effect of theme, conflict and resolution, symbolism, irony, analogies, and figurative language (satire).

After reading the first two paragraphs on p. 46, explain what problem Dickens is trying to correct through the use of satire in that passage.

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The following definition is to be discussed priorprior to reading pp. 48 through 52 in Chapter I of Book the Second.

Book the Second—Chapter 1, p. 56

Grim humor created by the use of morbid and grotesque situations which often deal with suffering, anxiety, and death.

Black humor:

Dickens’ narrator provides the following hints (foreshadowing) of Jerry Cruncher’s “second” profession:

1. If “recalling to life” came into fashion, Jerry would be in a “Blazing bad way” (11).

2. Jerry’s boots are clean when he goes to bed; however they are “covered with clay” (56) when he wakens.

3. Jerry is “exceedingly red-eyed and grim” (57) when he wakens, which implies that he has not had a good night’s sleep.

4. The narrator tells us that Jerry “issued forth to the occupation of the day” (58).

5. Young Jerry wonders why his father’s fingers “is al-ways rusty” (59).

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