"The Wine Shop" Paragraph

In the first 2 pages of chapter 5 in A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens foreshadows the French Revolution by displaying the harsh conditions the common people had to endure. Dickens writes, "Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere"(Dickens 22). Dickens says that everyone knew the feeling of hunger. Everyone was Hungry all the time. On page 20 the book reads, "All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine"(Dickens 20). All the people needed to get and drink some of the wine because they don't have much else. The wine is a dink when they have no drinks. So many people were poor, and the government was so rich, so people couldn't just let that be. Page 21 reads, "... or even with handkerchiefs from women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths"(Dickens 21). The people were so poor that they had to feed even their babies the wine, because they didn't have much else to give them. People couldn't go on living so poor, while the aristocracy was so rich. People had to fight to even the economy.