Chapter 27
A Tear for a Drop of Water
These words were, so to speak, the point of union of two scenes, which had, up to that time, been developed in parallel lines at the same moment, each on its particular theatre; one, that which the reader has just perused, in the Rat-Hole; the other, which he is about to read, on the ladder of the pillory. The first had for witnesses only the three women with whom the reader has just made acquaintance; the second had for spectators all the public which we have seen above, collecting on the Place de Grève, around the pillory and the gibbet.…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise Belonging When You Are Shut Out
Write six lines on A Tear for a Drop of Water: who looked, who was looked at, and what you would have refused. Keep it to this chapter.
Consider:
- •The working skill is Belonging When You Are Shut Out.
- •Use only beats from this chapter.
- •Name a cost, not the film.
Master this chapter. Complete your experience
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