Question

Prisoner Freed

For 18 years Dr. Alexander Manette was secretly and unjustly held in a prison located in Paris, France. Manette witnessed a crime committed by two noble brothers, the St. Evremondes, and was imprisoned so that he could not report their transgressions.
After finally being freed, Dr. Manette appears very weak and he hardly seems aware of his surroundings. Dr. Manette does not act as if he is aware that he is no longer in prison. When asked his name he replies with his cell number, “One Hundred and Five, North Tower.”
“I am enraged,” his daughter Lucie Manette explained during an interview. “This entire time my father has been alive, yet because of the Frenchmen’s ruthless cruelty I was deprived of the opportunity to know him. The French are robbers who have stolen so many years of our lives.”
Lucie’s mother is deceased and with the absence of her father, assumed to be dead, she was raised as an orphan.
“Although I am very thankful that he is alive and that I still have family, I wish he had never suffered such agony. I never could have prepared myself to see my father after 18 years of imprisonment.”
Dr. Manette has returned to England with his daughter last week. Lucie will try to help restore his memory.




Man on Trial for Treason Acquitted

Charles Darney was acquitted at his trial after the prosecution was unable to produce strong evidence.
Darney was charged of treason and accused of providing France with secret information about England sending troops to the American colonies. Darney claimed that he was not guilty and was defended by Attorney Stryver.
The prosecution had several witnesses. During cross-examination the witnesses were found to be unreliable sources. Those witnesses who were reliable were uninformative and unable to convince the jury that Darney was guilty.
Darney’s resemblance to a man in the courtroom also established that the prosecution could not identify him as the spy beyond a reasonable doubt. After jury deliberation, Darney was acquitted.



Above are newspaper articles that I had to write to A Tale of Two Cities, do you think they are okay?

Answer 1

The first one is well written; however you need to check your verb tenses. In the first sentence you are using past tense. In the second you change to present tense. I would use past tense consistently. Check your punctuation in the sentence beginning "This entire time....." it is a compound sentence with an introductory adverb clause.

The second paragraph looks fine.