Today‚ humans across the world are face with the ever growing problem of being poor. Just like in the book Les Miserable‚ we see a great many of people who are slaves to their job. To be poor was consider a crime and for that everyone was outrage about this. Soon it got to a point where there was no means of getting by or supporting a family. I’ve seen and know people who are facing this trouble today. It’s so significant because most are faced with some type of poverty in life. Poverty has
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American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal
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written by upcoming author Marie Lu. Before Lu became a full time writer‚ she was an art director for a video game company. This is a book inspired by the television show‚ Les Miserables. The show involved a highly skilled detective hunting down a notorious criminal. Legend is written from the perspective of two different characters with two completely different backgrounds. June‚ the Republic’s prodigious student is finishing college at age fifteen and has her entire life set to become a high ranking
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Round character Definition: A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat‚ or static‚ characters. If you think of the characters you most love in fiction‚ they probably seem as real to you as people you know in real life. This is a good sign that they are round characters. A writer employs a number of tools or elements to develop a character‚ making him or her round
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Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car‚ where the car company charges high interest‚ and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline‚ though society is much more at at fault than she. Firstly‚ Fantine is partially to blame since she is inexperienced and naive. Likewise‚ society is at fault because the population dehumanizes people living in poverty. Moreover‚ society is responsible because
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influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences that Pip faces include poverty‚ low self-esteem‚ abuse
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Looking into the movie‚ I have found that it is a very parallel story line. The two main characters lead very similar lives just on the opposite sides of the road. Javert‚ seems to be the law and nothing more‚ and Valjean‚ may be just the lowly criminal‚ but if you take a closer look you can only see their similarities and not their differences. Javert‚ has a very simple story. He was born in the same prison his parents were prisoners in. I believe this is where one very simple fact changes a man
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In Girl With A Pearl Earring and Les Miserables‚ Griet and Cosette are mistreated by the higher class. Cosette is Fantine’s daughter who is given to the Thenardiers‚ a family of innkeepers‚ because Fantine knows she cannot take care of Cosette. While at the Thenardiers’s inn‚ Cosette is abused and forced to do extortionate tasks she is barely able to do‚ like fetch water in the dark with a bucket larger than her. She is given no mercy‚ because of the “fierce mistress and venomous master” she is being
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Character Analysis In the novel‚ Les Miserables‚ by Victor Hugo‚ the protagonist‚ Jean Valjean changes throughout the course of the novel from a contemptible‚ conniving ex-convict to an noble‚ compassionate‚ and heroic man. During his time in jail‚ Jean Valjean’s heart becomes corrupted; he realizes the world detests him for who he is. However‚ a bishop named Myriel shows him great kindness and compassion for him‚ which transforms him forever. In a small town‚ Montreuil-sur-mer‚ Valjean restores
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English 12-3 Mrs. Cheryl Simmons 29 September 2008 Was Beowulf a Flat or Round Character? Beowulf is a hero noted for his acts of courage and the nobility with which he performed these acts. Beowulf embodied the ideals of conduct that were most valued in this setting. Beowulf is described as the perfect hero‚ almost too perfect. There lies the problem of Beowulf’s character‚ it is flat. Beowulf fights for his people and fights evil with super-human abilities to bring about peace and justice
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