In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens foreshadowed of how poor and hungry the people of France are. Dickens quoted "A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. . . All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine." (Dickens 20). The people of France are desperate and hungry. Whenever there is a chance, the citizens will rush to the free source of food and sink it down to their stomach. No matter how disgusting and awful the food is, they have no other choice but to eat or drink it, in order to survive. "A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices-voices of men, women and children-resounded in the street while this wine game lasted." (Dickens 21). As it is, it is very humiliating to drink filthy wine from the ground. But what can these poor do? They do can not eat what they want, nor do they eat daily bases. While the wealthy folks have anything they desire, the poor has nothing but agony.
"The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where is was spilled. . . and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a night-cap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his fingers dipped in muddy wine-less-BLOOD." (Dickens 21-22). They were so desperate, the poor did not mind blood dripping out of their. Food was much more important then their own body because it was very limited for them. They were ready to offer anything they have for food, even their body.
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