Fantine-2) Jean Valjean was sentenced to a total of nineteen years in prison. Valjean was very poor, he and his sister’s family were starving to death. Out of desperation, Jean Valjean “seized a loaf of bread and took it” (Hugo 23) from the bakery. He was caught, and as a punishment, “Jean Valjean was sentenced to five years in the galleys,” (Hugo 23). Once he was at the galleys, he tried to escape several times. Each time his sentenced was elongated, adding a total of sixteen years to his original five-year sentence. Fantine-4) After Jean Valjean found shelter and hospitality in the church, he attempted to steal the bishop’s sliver plates. However, he was caught and brought back to the church. To Valjean’s surprise, the bishop did not feel…show more content… He improved the way the town factory made bracelets “by simply bending the ends of the metal together instead of soldering them,” (Hugo 49). This led the bracelets to be more cost efficient and to be made faster, thus causing a large increase in profits. Cosette-2) Jean Valjean escaped from the galleys on the Orion ship. A worker was on the boat and tripped, he “hung dangling to and fro at the end if this line,” (Hugo 115). Jean Valjean saved the man but fell into the water. Everyone thought he was dead, but Valjean was able to swim back to shore and escape. Cosette-6) Jean Valjean was called “the beggar who gives alms,” (Hugo 126) because he was very secretive in their new town and no one knew his real name. When Valjean went out for walks “he still wore his yellow coat, his black pantaloons, and his old hat...he was taken for a beggar,” (Hugo 126). People would often give him a small token of money. Valjean would always accept the penny, but then “when he would reach some wretched creature begging... he would... slip a piece of money, often silver, into his hands,” (Hugo…show more content… He was internally debating what to do because “this man, to whom he, Marius, burned to devote himself, was a monster,” (Hugo 221). He did not know what to do because he swore to repay and protect Thénardier, whom he knew now was a cruel and insidious person. However, he also wanted to help the woman he loved and her father.
Saint Denis-6) The spy who entered the barricade was none other than Javert. Gavroche found him out and he was immediately captured and searched. After he was imprisoned, Javert “will be shot ten times before the barricade is taken,” (Hugo 278).
Saint Denis-9) As the fight for the barricade intensified, Marius ran inside to get a large keg of gunpowder. If the soldiers did not retreat, Marius threatened to “blow up the barricade,” (Hugo 285) and himself along with it.
Saint Denis-10) Marius finally received Cosette’s letter after the tragic death of Eponine. Upon hearing the news that she would move to England, he wrote to her explaining that their “marriage was impossible,” (Hugo 292) and that he would die in the barricade soon. He reassured her that “when [she] reads this, [his] soul will be near [her] and will smile upon [her],” (Hugo