knew God. That moment touched his heart; he decided to change his life. After eight years‚ Valjean broke his parole and changed his name to Monsieur Madeleine. He became a Mayor and factory owner. There was a time when the Javert‚ the inspector‚ recalled Jean Valjean and realized it was Monsier Madeleine. He filed a case against the mayor and accuses Monsieur as an ex-convict. This starts the conflict of Jean Valjean. He thought if he would give up his wealth for the right. He was unable to see an
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Étienne‚ the butler‚ finally announced that dinner was served. We put down our drinks‚ and cheered the news which brought us closer to the long awaited moment to savor the “saumon a la mayonnaise’‚ specialty of Mélanie la cuisinière. In the middle of the agitation‚ I was approached by the Baron de Valfort to escort Dame Irène Chaboix. I was glad to do it. I went over to the Diva right away‚ and offered her my arm‚ which she accepted with the grandiloquence of stage actors. Like most old artists
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letter to Jarvis Lorry. It tells Lorry to wait for a lady at Dover once he gets there. When Lorry arrives‚ he meets Lucie Manette‚ a young women in London. Lorry tells Lucie that her father‚ who she assumed dead‚ had been found in a prison. They go to Monsieur Defarge‚ who has kept Lucie’s father safe‚ and he lets them inside so Lucie can talk to her father who just made shoes the entire time when he was there. He remembers her even after spending many years in prison. Five years go by and it is 1780.
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both character will be short lived.hints can be found in the first couple of paragraphs in the story. Early in the story‚the author hints the first problem that can ruin their marriage in the unforeseen future when the author wrote the following‚”Monsieur Valmonde grew practical and wanted things well considered:that is‚the girl’s obscure origin.This is important since during this
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❖ CHARACTERS: • Narrator 1 • Narrator 2 • Narrator 3 • Narrator 4 • Madame Matilda Loisel • Monsieur Loisel (Matilda’s Husband) • Madame Jeanne Forester (Matilda’s former schoolmate) ❖ Scene 1: An apartment [Matilda mimes in concert with the narrators’ descriptions.] NARRATOR 1: This is Matilda‚ a pretty and charming young woman who happened to be born into a family that didn’t have much money. She felt so trapped by her circumstances that she
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One evening Mathilde’s husband brings home an invitation to a fancy dinner party. He is certain that Mathilde will be excited. However‚ she becomes very upset‚ saying she has nothing suitable to wear to such an event. Hoping to make her happy‚ Monsieur Loisel offers to buy her a new 400 pound dress with the money he was saving for a new gun. As the ball approaches‚ Madame Loisel again becomes anxious because she has no jewelry to wear to accent her new dress. When her husband suggests she borrow
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the nice things. What she wants to get out of life is luxury. Mathilde Loisel’s character changes towards the end of the story. This is because in the beginning of the story‚ she is a person who is not accepting her place in the social structure. Monsieur Loisel‚ & Mathilde got an invitation to a party. Instead of being glad‚ Mathilde says that she cannot go because of the fact that she has nothing nice to wear or any jewels. She is able to buy a dress and borrow a necklace from Madame
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In the fictional story‚ “Desiree’s Baby”‚ written by Kate Chopin‚ we find out Desiree is an orphan‚ taken in by Monsieur and Madame Valmonde. Then‚ as Desiree ages she marries a wealthy man named Armand Aubigny‚ who she later has a boy with. Later in the story‚ both find out the baby is a quadroon and Armand begins to blame Desiree for the race. Desiree begins to feel miserable and kills herself along with the baby. Chopin foreshadows the theme that racism is not something to proud of and doesn’t
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It is an immutable fact of life that every person will find him or herself in a situation that makes him or her uncomfortable at some point in his or her life. The true importance of such events is not in the situations themselves‚ but in how the person reacts to being in the situation. Such themes are present in literature from all around the globe‚ as evinced by Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie‚” Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Gogol‚” Guy de Maupassant’s “Two Friends‚” and Jorge Luis Borges’ “Rosendo’s Tale.”
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teacher. A good example of a positive teacher is my French teacher‚ Monsieur Poirrot. He always allows time during the class hour for some free discussion. Once‚ when some of the students in our class were having trouble with the pronunciation of the rolled “r” in French‚ he took several hours of his own time to work with us in very small groups in his office until we had mastered the sound. Unfortunately‚ teachers like monsieur Poirrot are relatively small in number. Of the three types of teachers
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