Wine scene

              In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens shows many ways that this wine scene forshadows events that will happen in the future. He says, "The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris" (Dickens 21). I think Dickens is trying to forshadow the future by having the wine represent the blood that will be on the streets in an upcoming battle. Dickens states, "Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women" (Dickens 21). This quote really displays how poor the people were, and how desperate they were for anything they could put into their children's body or their own. "Scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy wine-less-BLOOD" (Dickens 22). This quote also contributes to him forshawdowing that there will be a battle in the future because he calls the wine blood, and shows that people picture it as blood as well.