Gavroche By Thénardier Character Analysis

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• Magnon paid the Thénardiers ten francs a month for the boys.
• The Thénardiers and Magnon were the only ones who knew that the boys were not Magnon’s boys.
• Thénardier become Jondrette at this time
• Time passes, Magnon gets arrested and the boys are thrown out into the world.
• Gavroche (Thénardiers’s oldest son) is content living his life on his own on the streets.
• Gavroche ends up finding his two brothers in the streets and takes them under his wing (he does not know they are his brothers).
• Gavroche gives a girl on the street some of his clothes.
• Gavroche calms the boys down as best he can and feeds them. Gavroche takes the smallest piece of bread.
• Gavroche climbs to the top of a large elephant statue and convinces the
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Cosette was happy, which made him happy. He did not question why she was happy.
• Valjean could have blocked out the fact that Cosette was happy from being in love with someone else because, “when two lovers have an understanding they always get along well; any third person who might disturb their love, is kept in perfect blindness by a very few precautions, always the same for all lovers” (Hugo, 582).
• Marius stumbles upon Eponine, he is grateful to her but is not excited to see her, and he does not even recognize her at first.
• Eponine says good evening to Marius and walks away.
• The next day, Marius makes his way to the Rue Plumet before heading to the garden. Eponine is following him.
• Her father and his fellow bandits ask why she is there, she explains that she is there because she can.
• Eponine changes the subject, tries to hug her father and asks about her mother. Her father is short with her and tells her to leave.
• Eponine says she wants to spend time with him and talk with him since he has been away for so long, but Thénardier does not seem to want anything to do with her.
• Thénardier and his bandit “friends” (Montparnasse, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Brujon) are watching Cosette, see she is alone. Eponine tells them that no one lives there, they moved
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She is not allowing them to rob Valjean and Cosette for the sake of Marius.
• She escorted them away from the house, they listened to her.
• Marius finds Cosette sad and weeping. “It was the first cloud in this wonderful dream” (Hugo, 590).
• Cosette tells Marius that she is going away, to England.
• Marius is not pleased by the news. “When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die” (Hugo, 590).
• Cosette telling Marius “we are going away” tells Marius that Cossette is not his, which breaks his heart. He wants her to be his possession.
• Cosette is telling Marius to go with them to England. Marius does not have the money or a passport, he cannot go.
• Cossette is still sobbing, Marius tells her to not weep, he asks if she loves him, she says I adore you”  Marius tells Cossette that if she goes away he will die (592).
• Marius has some business to take care of and tells Cosette to not expect him tomorrow. She is worried but Marius tells her, ‘“let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life”’ (Hugo, 593).
• Marius’s grandfather, Gillenormand is in poor

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