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Subject:
English
Level:
English Level 5
Teacher:
José María Beltrán Blanco
Activity:
Les Misérables Essay
Names of the members:

Mayo Flores José Fernando
Malpica Martínez Gustavo
Pérez Roiz Juan Ramón
Chay Álvarez Habid
Les Misérables
The miserable play, is an extremely good play culturally speaking, is developed in an
environment after the French Revolution; which marked the end of feudalism and absolutism,
giving rise to the bourgeoisie becoming the political force of the
country, however there was an economic devastation reflected
in the shortcomings of the lowest social class.
The play begins with what appears to be a publicly clean person,

who is assaulted by a person belonging to the army telling him
that he has been doing his job badly, and takes away his job.
That man was called Jean Valjean.
Later, for stealing a few loaves of bread to feed his hungry

nephews, he is sentenced to 5 years in prison for "burglary at
night and in an inhabited house", specifically for breaking the
glass of the shop window of the bakery. His stay in prison makes
him a despicable and heartless being: a miserable person full of hate with incredible physical
strength, although he learns to read, write and count.
Jean Valjean, after serving his sentence and leaving the prison, arrives in a town, where they
knew he was an ex-con and all the people despised him for that. In one scene he wanted only
a bed and some food in exchange for a good payment of
francs, but the person in charge after finding out who
was denied everything he needed, and ran it from the
establishment where he was.
Bishop Myriel is the only one who gives him shelter,

offers him food and bed to sleep. In the middle of the
night he gets up and steals some silver cutlery, the only
treasure the bishop possessed.
When fleeing the town the police stop him with the cutlery and they take it before the bishop,
who, in an act of kindness, saves it, saying that he had given him those objects so that he
could start a new life, also he tells him that he had “He forgot to take the candelabra” (also
silver) that he had also given him. The bishop's assistant asks him why he had done that act,
and says "That money belongs to the poor, so it belongs to him more than to us". After he
keeps the things the bishop gave him, he starts singing a short song that shows how he feels.
He followed his path, and without wanting to, he steals a coin from Petit-Gervais, a boy who
earned his living as a chimney sweep on the roads. This fact subsequently martyrs him
psychologically, because he realizes that the example he received from the bishop was
beginning to operate a change in him.
This episode and the humility and humanity of the
bishop operates in Jean Valjean as a balm that heals his
wounds and turns him into a good and pious man whose
goal is to do good to the needy.
On the other side of the play we find Fantine, who had

a daughter named Cosette. Fantine, desperate, leaves
Paris with her daughter with the intention of leaving her
daughter in the hands of a good family while she works
to earn enough money and thus have her daughter by
her side.
On the way, he sees a good lady with his daughters, so he leaves his daughter in the care of
the Thenardier marriage owner of a hostel in a town
on his way from Paris. To those who gave them some
francs so they could take care of her daughter.
Fantine continues on his way and finds work in Jean

Valjean's factory. However, Fantine is fired unjustly
without knowledge of Jean Valjean and is forced to
resort to prostitution, after selling his hair and teeth,
to continue sending money to the evil couple
Thenardier, who are deceiving her into believing that
they are taking care of her daughter, while what they do is use it as a servant, having her ill-
dressed and sickly and charging her more and more
money for her maintenance, arguing that her
daughter needs increasingly expensive medicines
for an alleged illness.
Fantine is fatally ill with tuberculosis due to her

efforts derived from her life as a prostitute. When
knowing the cause of the opprobrium of Fantine,
Jean Valjean protects and takes care of Fantine in
his mortal illness and promises to him that it will
bring to Cosette and will take care of both.
Then he travels to the Inn of the Thérnardier in

search of Cosette. Discovering how they treat the
daughter of the deceased Fantine, Valjean decides
to take her and adopt her as his daughter. They live
in the poorest Parisian neighborhoods until they are
accepted into a convent, where they arrive on the
run.
Then he travels to the Inn of the Thérnardier in

search of Cosette. That's when Jean Valjean
rescues from the clutches of those people the little
Cosette, whom they send to bring water from the river, since a client of his dirty tavern says
that his horse has not taken water.
Then Jean Valjean meets Cosette and helps him

carry the bucket of water, then offers fifteen
hundred Franks so that Cosette can be taken with
him along with a paper that Fantine wrote before
he died, authorizing Jean Valjean to take Cosette.
Valjean decides to take her and adopt her as his
daughter. They live in the poorest Parisian
neighborhoods until they are accepted into a
convent, where they arrive on the run.
Marius Pontmercy, a rosy and cheerful clean

white boy who was called "poor boy" and the reason was because his father was a bandit as
society believed, but in reality he was a political prisoner sentenced to live marked and in the
misery.
The most cruel thing is that when his wife

dies, the grandfather snatched his little son
forbidding him to see him in exchange for
giving him wealth and education. The name
of that child who became a good man was
Marius Pontmercy.
He was a young man with a totally different

vision than his grandfather, who wants to
belong to revolutionary groups. Everything
changes when he learns that his father is not
dead, but is living in Normandy, who
preferred to renounce to see him, so that he
would not lose an inheritance. When he can reunite with his father, it is too late: he is dying,
he only asks him to stay strong in his convictions and not give up what he wants.
Jean Valjean leaves the convent so as not to deprive Cossette of the freedoms of the outside
world. One day, Marius sees Cossette and falls madly in love with her. Jean Valjean is
witness to the romance between Cosette and Marius.
However, Marius is involved in the barricades
of the street riots, since he belongs to a group
of young revolutionaries and his commitment
to them is such that he sacrifices himself for his
ideals. Valjean goes to the barricades in order
to protect Marius; almost without realizing it,
Valjean becomes an admired member of the
young revolutionaries, since he gives them
courage and helps tirelessly to take care of the
wounded.
Valjean rescues Marius seriously wounded and takes him to his grandfather's house. He
forgives Javert's life, who confesses that he has been persecuting him and that he was not
sincere when he promised. Marius
recovers from his injuries.
Cosette and Marius get married and forget

a moment of Jean Valjean, who is sick
with sadness, because Marius, without
knowing the truth, does not let him visit
Cosette and that depresses him.
When Marius realizes that, in reality, who

saved him from dying had been Jean
Valjean, and that, instead of killing Javert
on the barricade, he had left him free, he
regrets what he has done and hurries to Cosette to visit Jean Valjean. But when they arrive,
they are dying. Valjean to see them tells them how much he loves them, and how much he
had missed them. After a year of suffering, and with the forgiveness of Cosette and Marius,
he dies.

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The play begins with what appears to be a publicly clean person,

Later, for stealing a few loaves of bread to feed his hungry

Bishop Myriel is the only one who gives him shelter,

On the other side of the play we find Fantine, who had

Fantine continues on his way and finds work in Jean

Fantine is fatally ill with tuberculosis due to her

Then he travels to the Inn of the Thérnardier in

Then he travels to the Inn of the Thérnardier in

Then Jean Valjean meets Cosette and helps him

Marius Pontmercy, a rosy and cheerful clean

The most cruel thing is that when his wife

He was a young man with a totally different

Cosette and Marius get married and forget

When Marius realizes that, in reality, who

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