contoh resensi novel bahasa inggris "a tale of two cities"

Book Identity

·         Tittle                     : A Tale Of Two Cities

·         Writer                  : Charles Dickens

·         Retold By             : Ralph Mowat

·         ISBN Number      :  ISBN-13: 978-0-19-423047-6

                                ISBN-10: 978-0-19-423047-3

·         Publisher             : Oxford Bookworms

·         Edition                 : First Published 1994

                               Simplified Edition 2000              

·         Series Editor        : Jennifer Bassett

·         Founder Editor    : Tricia Hedge

·         Activities Editors : Jennifer Bassett And Alison Baxter

·         Illustrated By       : Mark Hargreaves

·         Type Of Book       : Classics Fiction

·         Total Page            : 88 Page

·         Total Chapter      : 13 Chapter

·         Headwords          : 1400

·         Text                       : English

·         Type Of Cover      : Soft Cover

·         Printed In             : Hong Kong

1.   Summary

 In 1775 in a room above a wine shop in Paris sits a man, who was busy making shoes. He was a prisoner in the bastille. But now he was a free man. His name was Dr. Manette, he didn’t know that he had a daughter.

In the other side, in England , mr. lorry a banker in Tellson’s bank, came to tell Lucie, that her father still alive. Lucie shocked to know about that. Then Mr. Lorry asked Lucie to went to Paris to met her father. When Lucie and Mr. Lorry  arrived in Paris, they went to the wine shop that owned by Mr. Defarge and Madam Defarge because Lucie’s father was there.  Mr. Lorry and Lucie picked up  Dr. Manette from that place, moved to England, where they were trying to recover the physical of him.

Five years later, Dr. Manette and his daughter involved in the trial of a French descent named Charles Darnay, as a witness. Darnay accused as a French spy. In the trial that they met with a lawyer named Mr. Stryver, and his eccentric, Sydney Carton, who surprisingly looked alike to Charles Darnay. Darnay eventually found not guilty by the court.

A few years later, Lucie and Darnay got married , they lived in the England happily.

Gabelle, the servant of the residence Evrémonde was in the prison, he wrote a letter to Darnay, asking to be saved. So Darnay went to France. There, he was arrested because of he was a nobleman. Darnay was acquitted, because of Dr. Manette and Lucie went to France, and Dr. Manette utilize its influence so that Darnay can be free. But in the evening, Darnay was accused again that comes from Defarge and his wife, and Dr. Manette!

In the trial, Defarge reads a letter written by Dr. Manette, who expressed the reason why he was sent to the Bastille. And Darnay will be executed in the Guillotine.

Sydney Carton knew about the story,  and he had an idea to free Charles Darnay. He was going to switch Charles Darnay as the prison who will be executed. Carton do that because he didn’t want to see Lucie, the only woman he ever loved, feel sad.

Sadly this story ends with the death of Sydney Carton. But the good side, Charles Darnay was free and lived happily with Lucie forever but they never forget about Carton’s big sacrifice.

2.    Target

This novel is recommended for adolescents from the age of 14 years.

3.    Spelling and Language Style

The text of the story use the vocabulary  and conversational language not really hard. So it will be easy for us to understand the story. But beside those things, the writer insert some figure of speech so, the literary of the story is more clearly visible and looks classic.

4.    Interesting Things

Page 1

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of sadness. It was the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

Page 73

Sydney Carton in the last steps to his death said “it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

5.    Weakness Of The Book

Basically the story is in the same type with Romeo and Juliet story, it is end tragically and nobody knows what happens next to the cast. But actually the story is very unique and romantic, but tragic. I bet people would say “why” during and after reading the story because everything just end like “hanging”.

6.    Excess Of The Book

It’s hard not to give a compliment to this story because the story is really great. This story actually is a love story, it’s about two men (Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton) who were madly in love with one girl, Lucie mannete. But Charles Dickens made it with different style, not like the other love story. This story was took the French revolution as the setting. so in addition to illustrate the love story between Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton, this story also illustrates how the French Revolution was.

And beside that, the story is equipped with beautiful-deep quotes.

7.    Conclusion

And by the explanation above, this novel is deserves to be a collection. Classic but touching. The use of simple language makes the reader doesn’t  have to repeat reading the story. So certainly we can take the messages from the story so we can be a better person.