LES MISÉRABLES
One of Victor Hugo's most famous books is "Les Miserables." This is an exquisite book about Jean Valjean, a convict that had been recently released from prison for stealing a loaf of bread because he was hungry. He was a man of middle height, stout and hardy, in the strength of maturing; he might have been forty-six or -seven (3). Having a yellow passport and having to show it to whomever he meets, because he is an ex-convict, no one would let him stay at their house for supper and a place to sleep, except for a bishop. This bishop turns Valjeans life around by telling that he needs to change his ways and making him understand why and how. A decade passes; Valjean, who had had changed his nam
I do not understand why Victor Hugo did not give the town a name, but he gives M_____ sur M_____. Marius is not merely a foil for Jean. An important character in his own right, he introduces us into a world of politics, whereas in the apolitical world of Jean Valjean, our attention has been centered chiefly on the wider problems of social injustice. The famous episode of the bishop's candlesticks takes on its clearest meaning in the light of this background. When he learns the truth of his father's career, he resembles Javert who had been operated on for a spiritual contact (165). ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Marius' political evolution, critics are unanimous in claiming, is not like Hugo's own brought up by his royalist grandfather Gillenormand, the young man is unaware that his ostracized father is an authe!ntic military hero of the Nepoleonic wars. At this point in the narrative Jean is not saved, for he shortly afterward steals the Petit Gervais' coin and then suddenly disappears from sight, only to reappear in Montreuil-sur-mer as M. After staying in town for about a week, Javert finally recognizes Valjean from prison. Madeleine, without any explanation (Grant 159). Hugo has been accused of being melodramatic and grandiloquent, and there is some truth in this accusation. Thus, the evil act of stealing the silver service turns out to be the first step on the road to salvation. But we can forgive every excess in return for scenes such as that in which the street-urchin Gavroche, falls asleep in the belly of statue of an elephant. Refusing to follow a divine call, Jean Valjean has it thrust upon him. While at the top of his game, Valjean sees the new inspector from Paris, Javer!t; he notices that the inspector was a guard from when he was in jail.
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