As we first see Sydney Carton, he is a lazy man, who drinks all day long. However，there is more to him as he said "I cause no harm to any man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me". He does not like the other people's view of him, and he wants to change it. Right before going to the guillotine, Carton visualizes a better life, a life where he gives to others, not thinking of himself. It shows the complete change in his view of life. Sydney Carton's love for Lucie results in his resurrection. He seems to have died in spirit when he "followed his father to the grave". He is resurrected from a useless existence to a useful and purposeful man when he decides to save Darnay. As he walking on the streets of Paris, he repeats the words "I am the resurrection and the life...” He dies but lives on in the memories of those for whom he gives his life. He also lives on in the life of Lucie's son, who is named for him and "resurrects" his career, winning his way up so well that Carton's name "becomes illustrious by the light of his." Carton's story is kept alive for generations when Lucie's son tells his own son.

IV. Conclusion
Christianity influences the Western civilization in many ways. Zhao Puchu, a famous hermit in China, once said: without Christianity, there is no European culture and even the Western civilization.(赵朴初，Joozone Note:《宗教政策法律知识答问》，34问，北京：中国社会科学出版社，1997) To some extent, the civilization is the integration of Christianity. Literature, as the vehicle of civilization, reflects the impact obviously. A Tale of Two Cities is only one of the numerous literature works reflecting the Christian impact, and Charles Dickens is only one of the writers who believe in Christianity. Melville, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrieh Nietzsche, and Ernest Miller Hemingway are all greatly influenced by Christianity. There is a saying that if Jesus Christ is eliminated from literature, it will become a blooding wound for the literature of our country, and we will soon dry out of blood.
(As translated from http://www.joozone.com/Files.Sharing/jesus/)

The history of Christianity is inseparable from the history of Western culture and Western society. For centuries Christian beliefs, principles, and ideals have colored the thoughts and feelings of Western man. The traditions and practices have left an ineffable mark not only on the developments of pure religious interest, but on virtually the total endeavor of man. This has been manifest in art and literature, science and law, politics and economics, and, as well, in love and war. Indeed, the indirect and unconscious influence Christianity has often exercised in avowedly secular matters--social, intellectual, and institutional--affords striking proof of the dynamic forces that have been generated by the faith over the millenniums. Even those who have contested its claims and rejected its tenets have been affected by what they opposed to. It is impossible to understand the cultural heritage that sustains and conditions our lives without considering the contributions of Christianity.英语作文