chapters 16-21

In chapter 16 the author repeatedly uses the phrase "knitting, knitting" which i am assuming means something but i am not sure what quite yet.
In chapter 17, the book talks about how Dr. Manette's daughter may not recall anything of him which makes him feel like there is no point in living any longer. While in jail, Manette often worry about how Lucie would turn out and what kind of person she would end up being so he would walk back and forth in the cell. The night before the wedding, Lucie goes down to her father's bedroom and checks in on him; when she finds him sleeping, she realizes that he is now content with the marriage.
Chapter 19 is about the destruction of the shoe making equipment, which i believe is truly about more than just a shoe making business: I think Dickens is trying to foreshadow something. Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry are the one's trying to make Manette quit the business, and they feel like accomplices to a horrible crime, even though they are trying to help the Doctor.
I think the title of Chapter 21 refers to Lucie hearing the footsteps that echo around the Manette household in Soho. She worried earlier in the book that the footsteps were the echoes of people coming into the family's life, and now the outside world is getting ready to screw up her little happy family. The echoes have not yet overtaken the family yet, because Lucie can still hear her childs footsteps closer.

In chapter six, Miss Pross is describing some people that come over to the house in which she claims seems like “hundreds of people” and that is an exaggeration because there is only a few that come over. Someone asks Dr Manette about his past and it almost seems as if he is afraid to remember his past again for some reason. The title of this chapter; Hundreds of People I think has some meaning to it besides the fact that Miss Pross is complaining of people over to the house.
Monseigneur, a king, has a party one night in Paris. He makes it seem like the party of the year and has lots of guests and fancy things there. At the party Monseigneur and one of the guests, Marquis get into a argument over something. Then when Marquis leaves, his carriage runs over a little boy and kills him. Marquis doesn’t think much of it and tosses the boy’s dad a few coins for his troubles. The dad throws one of the coins back and hits Marquis. Does this tell you how messed up this guy is?

The cliché of a line that everyone uses but don’t really know what it means is “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Now after reading the first few chapters of this book, I understand what this statement truly means. It contrasts the life in two countries: England where life is going well, and France where life seems to be in the crapper. The beginning of the book I noticed that Dickens uses a different style of writing than I’ve ever come upon before. Its almost as if he tries to write his thoughts backwards in the sentence which takes the reader a while to pick up. For the first few chapters I had to concentrate on every single line to make sure I understood it fully, but now I seem to be picking up on it.
Chapter two is all about mail being delivered through terrible conditions. I think this could be foreshadowing for the Revolutionary War which was going on at this time. I think it’s trying to say that the war is going to be incredibly tough but they just need to keep fighting and pushing to make it through.
The book then fast forwards five years. In London, the tellsons bank is a small, unwelcoming bank which is somewhat mysterious. The bank is located next to a bar where the government has displayed the heads of executed criminals on the walls.
Chapter 5 is called The Jackal. I looked up what a jackal is on the internet, and it is an animal found in Africa very similar to the coyote. A jackal is a scavenger, which means it feeds on animals that were killed by others. Seeing this, I believe that the jackal has something to do with the book and him being a scavenger of some type.