Foreshadowing

Dear Decathletes

Before I proceed to discuss the events of the last 100 pages, I want to go over an event from earlier in the book. Go to page 101. On that page Dr. Manette, Lucie, and Charles Darnay talk about the Tower of London (if are talking about twins then we can view the Bastille and the Tower of London as "doubles"--Darnay had spent time in the Tower and Manette in the Bastille). In any event, Darnay explains how the workmen in the Tower had once found the letters D.I.C. written once upon a time on a corner stone, probably by a prisoner. The letters had later been interpreted as to be read as DIG. When the workers dug there they discovered the remains of a letter inside a leather pouch. They couldn't determine what had been written, but they were amazed that a prisoner had written something and hidden it from the guards.

After he tells the story Dr Manette appears very disturbed.

Dickens doesn't reveal in that passage why Dr. Manette gets all excited. But what he is trying to do is express foreshadowing of what will come later.

Once you get to the last part of the book you will understand the significance of that foreshadowing on page 101.