The novel opens with, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." The first chapter introduces the setting, explaining what is going on in both England and France. "France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of shield and strident, rolled with exceeding smoothness downhill, making paper money and spending it." "In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify such national boasting."
In the next chapters, there is a mail carrier traveling to Dover. They are approached by a man and fear he is a robber, but he brings a message for Lorry to wait to speak to someone in Dover. Lorry says he is, "recalled to life." On the way to the city, Lorry has a reoccurring dream that he must dig someone up from.his grave. In the city, he meets with Lucie, & they decide to go to Paris to visit her dying father.
Dickens was on his own at a young age, allowing his imagination to run free. This is already evident in this book. The.characters are slowly beginning to develop, mostly through plot and indirect characterization. He also uses a lot of imagery and comparing.
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