Les Miserables: Part 4 Book 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

First Half of Part 4.

[siriusedward]

Reading about Louise philippe now...he is a great man...so idealistic..

[siriusedward]

So after skipping the 2 chapters in the book 1 of part 4..(I will return to it later)
Now I am at Book 6...
Jean Valjean advising Montparnasse with a recital of all his suffering was heartbreaking..it also showed how clever and ingenious he was , how persistent..
And how undeserving of punishment (the actual years he got) he was .it should have been only months ... not his whole youth...

Also , Montparnasse's and Gavroche's reaction to the advice was rather funny

And the scene depicting convicts was rather heartbreaking too esp Jean Valjeans reaction to it...

And Eponine and Gavroche turning out so, from such a family of Villians, is something.Her devotion to Marius is rather sad...how both she and her brother helped father Mabeuf, at different times was sweet and really admirable..

I think Jean Valjean ahould take over their rearing..it will be good for them..

And the letter to cosette was rather too dreamy..like Marius...

Marius, I want to shake some sense into him..helping Thenardiers...really...dont be a fool...

And Jean Valjeans home sounds very exciting..all the secret tunnels and secret entrance reminds me of Five on a Treasure Island :)

[siriusedward]

Reading this book.. my admiration for Little Gavroche grows in proportion to the dislike to his parents .Cant the Javert see such scum rather than be obsessed with the goodman Jean Valjean?

[Karin]

siriusedward wrote: "Reading this book.. my admiration for Little Gavroche grows in proportion to the dislike to his parents .Cant the Javert see such scum rather than be obsessed with the goodman Jean Valjean?"

Ah, but where would the story go, really, without Javert? So many of the best parts of the book would never have happened.

But, more to the point, Javert personifies much of the main thinking at that time about how people cannot change their nature, the blindness of the justice system, etc.

[siriusedward]

I do understand that Karin..but I still want to protest his hypocrisy and blindness and what he call duty is actually doing what is good for the nobility not the people as a whole , an individual as a person ( esp if he is poor , even if deserving of second chance)..


finished Book.6

I think I will read Book 7 (Argot) as really a book and read parts of it daily side by side with Book 8.

I am impatient to get to Marius .what happened after Marius and Cosette met and exchanged their souls..?