Tale of Two Cities

In the novel, “A Tale of Two Cities”, Charles Dickens says that the era of the

French Revolution was an era of paradox. He also says that the period was so far

like the present period. This mean that our era isn't that different than the period of

the French Revolution. This means that our era is also an era of paradox. The

reasons why I believe that our era is also an era of paradox is that we have more,

but are grateful less; we have more knowledge, but less judgment; and we have done

larger things, but not better things.

I believe that our era is also an era of paradox because we have more, but are

grateful less. An example of this would be the larger houses we now have. Due to

these larger houses, families are drifting apart. In the past, families of five or even

seven children would all live in a three bedroom apartment. These families were as

close as ever, they depended on each other. Now that everyone is moving into larger

houses, these families are becoming more distant to one another. These larger

houses may seem amazing because of how many bedrooms it has or how much

space there is, but it is also breaking the families that live in it. Since there is more

space, the siblings aren't always in each others shadows anymore. The siblings also

don't need to depend on each other as often because they are all in different parts of

the house doing their own thing. Another example of this would be the expansion

of infrastructure. We are building more highways and submissions which is giving

others a better, more comfortable way of living. However; because we are continuing

to expect more, infrastructure is destroying what used to be. We are losing our

natural resources and our farms from which our food comes from. In the past, we

would be able to just walk down to the farm to pick up our groceries, now we have to

drive to the grocery store however miles away to buy even