Les Mis

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lengthening his sentence without it. You can not learn to appreciate something that you always have had until you lose it. Perhaps this is why Jean was forever thankful of the little things, which everyone had and was happy to have only those once he was out of prison, so long as he had his freedom.


Even stronger then the love of freedom is that of life. Your life is something that once taken for granted is lost, and that once lost can never again be found. Everyone has some form of love for life for without that love they would find no reason to live. In Les Miserables we see that some do not love their life enough.


Two of the strongest cases to support the need for the love of life must be those of Javert and Jean. Javert, seeing how much Jean loved being alive



could not grasp why he had wasted his life taking the love out of others. Realizing that no one had any love for him, he lost all love for himself and his life, so he took it. The opposite side of this ...

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on bark benches they were in the first stages of love. Their love became one that was based mostly upon chance yet one that would last forever and through everything. This is the one and only true love expressed in Les Miserables and the only form of love that was not based upon some kind of lie or misunderstanding. Marius and Cosette learned to respect each other because of how strong their love was for each other and because of this they were able to work through anything that came their way. Their love was also the only form in this book that held any passion and any hope for the future.







When ever a new love is formed there is bound to be someone who is forced to ...

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