you‚ whore! -Rachel Hansen: Look‚ I know you think she was the one‚ but I don’t. Now‚ I think you’re just remembering the good stuff. Next time you look back‚ I‚ uh‚ I really think you should look again. -Tom: Either she’s an evil‚ emotionless‚ miserable human being‚ or... she’s a robot. Kick Ass 2010 -Dave Lizewski: In the world I lived in‚ heroes only existed in comic books. And I guess that’d be okay‚ if bad guys were make-believe too‚ but they’re not. -Dave Lizewski: With no power‚ comes
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Cosette Paper In Les Miserables‚ Jean Valjean is transformed many times throughout the story; he is reincarnated when being forced to face bad situations that occur and turn his life around. Despite his struggles‚ Valjean finds love and hope in a little girl named Cosette. Valjean changes himself so that he can provide a good life for Cosette. Cosette and Valjean learn to live together and support each other through their struggles despite the pain the Thenardiers have brought them. Although
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think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”(Albert Schweitzer) In both of the novels Les Miserables and Jane Eyre‚ there were characters who sparked ideas and philosophies for the others in the story‚ as well as the sparking ideas for the reader. In Jane Eyre‚ one of the most influential characters in the whole stories was Helen Burns‚ and in Les Miserables an important central character is that of Cosette. These two supporting characters have a variety of similarities
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adjust tend to lose their grip. This concept plays a huge role in the novel A Tale of Two Cities‚ by Charles Dickens‚ as well as in the movie Les Miserables‚ directed by Tom Hooper‚ based on Victor Hugo’s book of the same name. Taking place during France’s major periods of revolution‚ the first occurring before and during the French Revolution‚ and Les Miserables twenty-four years later‚ the two novels showcase the difficult lives of the poverty stricken French commoners and an inherent struggle between
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Victor Hugo – Les Misérables BACKGROUND : Victor Marie Hugo was the son of a general in Napoléon’s army‚ and much of his childhood was therefore spent amid the backdrop of Napoléon’s campaigns in Spain and in Italy. The first three years of his life were spent in Elba‚ where he learnt to speak the Italian dialect spoken in the island in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got
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The Secret of the Sewer One of the works favorite novels of all time is Les Miserable written by Victor Hugo. Les Miserable is filled with secrets and mysteries. Every page you turn‚ Victor Hugo throws a plot change at the reader. When Marius falls in the barricade the reader would never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that
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Javert: A Man with a Mission Many times in life‚ people start to wholeheartedly follow a goal. They focus solely on the goal‚ abandoning all reason and logic. Javert was one of these people. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ Javert was a police inspector who believed in absolutes. Consequently‚ for him‚ nothing could be both right and wrong; things were either completely good or completely bad. This attitude helped form his goal of life: to follow the law obediently and punish all criminals
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shows that despite such influences enlightened minds can and should rise up and try to create change. Though in “Les Miserables” the destruction of the class system does not come about‚ one thing does change‚ and that is Javert’s view of Valjean. Javert’s change of perspective causes him to question everything he has believed in his whole life. In the 2012 rendition of “Les Miserables” right before Javert plummets to his death‚ he says‚ “I am reaching but I fall. And the stars are black and cold
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Zach Santos 4/29/09 English 4 Cosette Character Sketch The character of Cosette brings a sense of love and romance‚ a hope for a better future‚ and entertainment value to the story of Les Miserables. She is also a developing character. Cosette’s beauty‚ the way she sees herself‚ and her fervor for living are slowly altered through life’s events and experiences. Euphrasie‚ nicknamed Cosette by her mother‚ Fantine‚ grows up in an atmosphere of poverty‚ fear‚ and heartlessness. At this time
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Ideological Manipulation in Translation in a Chinese Context: Su Manshu ’s Translation of Les Misérables by Li Li | | | | | | | | |1. Introduction:
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