Thénardiers

Imagine a world where you had to earn your place in society. You had limited resources and the rest of the world looked you down upon. There was no respect, no dignity, just survival. Poverty, sickness, pangs of hunger, and death of loved ones were all you knew. While the people suffered greatly, the upper class had an abundance of resources and was sapping the life out of the lower class. This world spoken of was not fiction, but reality for those in the era of the French Revolution, and in this case, Jean Valjean. Although he lived this harsh life described and was in imprisoned for 19 years, it is indisputable that Jean Valjean is a man of grace; in the sense that he forgave Fantine for all the wrong and mistakes she has done, his adoptive daughter Cosette for disobeying him, and Inspector Javert, for not allowing him to live his life in peace. Jean Valjean has shown much grace to Fantine throughout the story; from the moment they met till the scene where she dies. An example of grace shown to Fantine is when Jean orders Javert to release Fantine when she is found “attacking” a man and being arrested for prison. Valjean decided to forgive Fantine for spitting in his face, despite the fact that he saved her from six months in prison. After Fantine’s release from Javert, Valjean sends her to the hospital to be treated for her illness, at his expense. Valjean decides to take Fantine home and look after her so that she may be nursed back to health. He doesn’t know who she is…

• 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…

it to be ok with his rape of Hassan and the fact that he continued to rape children when he became an adult. This horrible mistreatment of children that is evident in The Kite Runner is also evident in Les Miserables. In Les Miserables the Thenardiers are truly barbaric people. This is shown on pages 62 and 63, Hugo states “One day they (Thenardiers) wrote to her (Fantine) that her little Cosette was entirely destitute of clothing for the cold winter, that she needed a woolen skirt, and that…

barbaric. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini supply the evidence needed to support these claims . In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, it is stated on page 63 “It was the money they wanted. They gave the skirt to Eponine. The poor lark still shivered”. The Thenardiers are using Cosette to get money, they do not care for her, unless it…

storming of the barricades was horrific. There was “trumpets sounding, bayonets fixed, sappers at their head, and, unswerving under the projectiles, came straight upon the barricades” (Hugo 314). Marius and Valjean escape the final assault intact was by Valjean carrying Marius on his back and going through the barricades. Valjean plunges into the darkness because he doesn’t want to be seen by the people who stormed the barricades. The darkness functions as a metaphor because valjean is a man on…

adaptation of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, civil unrest in connection with the French government’s increasingly unwarranted rule allowed these traits of love to be illustrated. Sydney Carton, a brilliant but depressed Englishman makes great sacrifices for the woman he loves – Lucie Manette. Eponine, daughter of the Thénardier family, finds herself sacrificing herself for the man she loves – Marius Pontmercy. These two characters symbolize the outcomes of suffering from unrequited love during…

Throughout the two chapters, there were many characters that were described very carefully by using different types of literary devices and motifs. Cosette and Marius were the two characters that a reader will feel drawn due to the fact the two chapters had so much to do with the characters and the names of the chapter was“Cosette” and “Marius”. Cosette shows who she is other than being described as “Fantine’s daughter” or the “bastard child”. She has a personality which reflected on her…

The book and the film follow the Thenardiers throughout their lives, but it is made evident that money is more important than their family, "Doesn't cost me to be nice / but nothing gets you nothing / Everything has got a little price!". Little Gavroche was never introduced as a part of the family in the movie musical, which belittled his character even more so. Also, you can see how little the Thenardiers thought of family because of how they treated Eponine. She ended up dying by the barricade…

Harry didn’t do anything wrong, unlike one of the most famous innkeepers in the (relatively) modern day, Monsieur Thénardier from the musical Les Misérables. Monsieur Thénardier embodies everything that could and would go wrong if someone stayed at a bad inn. In his first song of the play, “Master of the House”, Monsieur Thénardier openly admits how awfully he treats the tenants of his inn. Some of his actions include watering the wine, pick-pocketing them, charging them “for the lice, extra for…

innocent, amorous schoolboy to a hardened lone survivor. Jomuad’s happier moments on stage with Cosette were extraordinary with great chemistry between the two. Their duet A Heart Full of Love was entrancing in a Romeo and Juliet type love at first sight. Cosette’s (Vinh On) voice grew stronger throughout the performance as her love and passion grew. Marius’ companion and leader of the revolution Enjolras (Beckman Hollis) demanded attention on stage and exuded confidence. Hollis’ impeccable…