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Jean Valjean Les Miserables
687 wordsThe plot in Les Miserables us about a man convicted of a petty crime and sent to jail. He ended up in prison for 21 years, yet after getting out became a very compassionate and generous man. He was also an excellent father figure to a young girl. Although he was a very good man he went through many trials and hardships. At the beginning of Les Miserables, Jean Valjean could not afford to support his sisters family, so in his desperation he stole a loaf of bread. For this small crime he was sent ...
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Loaf Of Bread Jean Valjean
619 wordsLes Miserables, by Victor Hugo is a novel filled with action, hatred, sorrow and forgiveness. The main character that the novel focuses on is named Jean Valjean. After going to prison for a petty theft of a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean comes out of imprisonment as an ex-convict. Well informed to others that he is an ex-convict by his passport he tries to set out for a new life. After being rejected several times a man finally opens up his door and invites Jean Valjean inside. Surprisingly the man...
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Les Miserables Theme Forgiveness Self Sacrifice And Courage
997 wordsIt is precisely of him that I wished to speak. Dispose of me as you please; but help me first to carry him home. I only ask that of you. Upon examination of Les Miserables, it is clearly evident that the elements of Forgiveness, Self Sacrifice, and Courage are only a few of the main themes Hugo wanted to develop. First off, is the element of forgiveness. In a book of mistrust, poverty, and hate forgiveness thrives in the world of Les Miserables. The first example of this was at the very beginnin...
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Jean Valjean Turning Point
906 wordsVictor Hugo made it so that the characters in Les Miserables progressed throughout the novel. The theme progress can be seen and used widely. Three main characters, Jean Valjean, Cossette, and Javert expressed positive and negative forms of growth. Jean Valjean began the story as an ex-convict who was searching for food and shelter after working in the galleys for sixteen years. Unfortunately, he failed to receive compassion from any lodging, or home. While he was wandering through the streets a...
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Jean Valjean Victor Hugo
1,198 wordsGod has graced mankind with countless attributes that can be portrayed as minor or major roles in ones daily walk. Among these features are ambition and hope. Ambition, defined as an eagerness or strong desire to achieve something, relates significantly to motivation, an act of movement toward a goal. Hope, a confidence and trust that something will take place, is extensively used when ambition and motivation are of topic. Victor Hugo, a French novelist during the eight-hundreds, adeptly and cle...
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Falls In Love Les Miserables
344 wordsMoshiur Rahman English 11 Writing 2 / 12 / 01 David Copperfield &# 038; Les Miserables In the novel, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens &# 038; Les Miserables by Victor both consists of tragedy and romance. Both novels have elements of tragedy. In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is been hunted down by the inspector from dawn to dusk; for his unproven crime. He is treated as a criminal, yet he has to take care of his most valued asset; Javert. He can? t do that, with being hidden in a, never to go...
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Falls In Love Les Miserables
343 wordsMoshiur Rahman English 11 Writing 2 / 12 / 01 David Copperfield &# 038; Les Miserables In the novel, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens &# 038; Les Miserables by Victor both consists of tragedy and romance. Both novels have elements of tragedy. In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is been hunted down by the inspector from dawn to dusk; for his unproven crime. He is treated as a criminal, yet he has to take care of his most valued asset; Javert. He can? t do that, with being hidden in a, never to go...
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Love Of God Les Miserables
590 wordsFrom the dusk of dawn till the end of time, evil and good will always exist in the finding of one s self. Les Miserables foretells the compelling race between good and evil in a early eighteenth century France. Passionately and purely, Victor Hugo poured his soul into the making of Les Miserables where humanity is the key, history is the making, and all strive for human dignity. Humanity is the key to a locked door in the eyes of the human race. Though evil is known to we the people, as love to ...
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Les Miserables Jean Valjean
509 wordsLes Miserables is a story, a very long story, which has been categorized as a classic. The story is about 1200 pages long. It is an epic saga, which covers about three decades in the early 1800 s of France. The film is about the fugitive, Jean Valjean, following his release from jail after doing nineteen years of hard labor for stealing bread. Jean Valjean is chased by the cruel and self-righteous Inspector Javert, in a lifelong struggle to evade capture. The novel, Les Miserables is internation...
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Les Miserables Victor Hugo
566 wordsLes Miserables, by Victor Hugo, starts out with Valjean saying how he is 19 years old and a thief. The novel goes through his whole life. It explains the many conflicts he faces. But mainly it shows how he tries to escape his past during the French Revolution. Valjean was not a very wealthy man. He stole a piece of bread because he was hungry. He got tried and committed as if he had done a major crime and served 5 years in prison. He ended up doing 19 years of hard labor because he had tried to ...
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Les Mis Victor Hugo
1,213 wordsLes Miserables: One of the Greatest Works of Literature Les Mis? rates was written by Victor Hugo, and published in 1862. It has been translated into many different languages, and turned into a play and movie as when as being a book. When a friend asked Hugo why he wrote the book he replied as follows, I condemn slavery, I banish poverty, I teach ignorance, I treat disease, I lighten the night, and I hate hatred. That is what I am, and that is why I have written Les Mis? rates. The book Les Mis?...
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Face To Face Les Miserables
644 wordsLes Miserables The movie Les Miserables was directed by Glenn Jordan and produced by Norman Rosemont. The top three stars were Richard Jordan as Jean Val Jean, Anthony Perkins as Javert, and John Gielgud as Marius grandfather. The movie was based on the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Jean Val Jean is just one of the many people of France facing the overwhelming problem of starvation. Caught stealing a loaf of bread, he is taken to the terrible Than prison where he meets Javert, the prison ...
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End Of The Book Les Miserables
469 wordsMajor Theme of Les Miserables In Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Hugo shows us the underlying theme through many different symbols and quotations. For instance, when Jean Valjean stays the night with the bishop Monseigneur Marie, Valjean steals the bishops silver. The police catch him and bring him back to the bishop. The bishop hands him two candlesticks, the last of his possessions, and sais, Dont forget that you promised me to use this silver to become an honest man. This quotation sets the stag...
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