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    Gentri W. & Kimberly P. A4 October 23‚ 2012 Les Miserables Transmediation Final Project: Eponine We chose to do Eponine for our final project. She was the Thenarider’s oldest daughter. She is hopelessly in love with Marius and he doesn’t take any notice of her. While posing as the Jondrette family‚ she is the one to go and ask Marius for some money. Later in the book‚ she shows Marius where Cosette lives and then leads him into the barricades for war‚ with the thought that if she couldn’t

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    BUTALID‚ LOUSYL JOY L. PLOT OF LES MISERABLES The convict Jean Valjean is released from a French prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and for subsequent attempts to escape from prison. When Valjean arrives at the town of Digne‚ no one is willing to give him shelter because he is an ex-convict. Desperate‚ Valjean knocks on the door of M. Myriel‚ the kindly bishop of Digne. Myriel treats Valjean with kindness‚ and Valjean repays the bishop by stealing his silverware. When

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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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    Reading Notes Themes: Searching for Redemption Amir feels responsible for the death of his mother‚ who died during child birth‚ at the beginning of the novel we see Amir desperately trying to redeem himself to Baba by trying to win the kite tournament. Amir’s guilt from the incident regarding Hassan retrieving the losing kite is what causes Amir’s search for redemption. Closer to the end of the novel Amir travels to Kabul to retrieve Sohrab from Assef’s custody this is what redeems him. Earlier

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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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    “A fool thinks himself to be wise‚ but a wise man knows himself to be a fool” –William Shakespeare. In the book‚ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo‚ Javert is a man of the law‚ nothing more‚ nothing less. From the first time Javert and Jean Valjean met‚ he pretty much knew that was not going to be the last time. While I read the book‚ I noticed that Javert was going to do all he could to find Valjean but he let him slip a few to many times which classifies him as a coward. Now‚ I’m not going to call

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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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