Research Paper On Jean Valjean

People can change people change all the time sometimes they change for the good sometimes they change for the bad. How does a situation affect how someone changes. Can someone change for the good out of a bad situation. In Night, Elie Wiesel's faith, relationships, and personality all change due to one situation the holocaust.

So people have been given the chance to change but some don’t change, example in Christmas Carol Scrooge changes he becomes giving instead of grochey. So if Mr. Scrooge can change then I think everyone can change for the better. Because everyone is capable of changing they just need to try. Some people try but they are worried about change. Some people don’t really care they just want to become a better person.

The book begins with the convict, Jean Valjean, being released from a French Prison. He has served nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and subsequent escape attempts. He is set free, but only with his identification papers yellow. This marks him as criminal, and now in the new town, no one is willing to house him. In despair, Jean Valjean goes to the bishop M. Myriel. The kind man allows him to stay, but Jean Valjean repays him by stealing the bishop’s silverware then running for it.

Beginning as a fort to protect the city, then later a prison, the Bastille would become a symbol of the French Revolution. The horrific living conditions its inhabitants endured, the significance of the peasants storming the bastille, and the pivotal role it played in the French Revolution all qualify this building to be a major part of France’s history.

Jean Valjean is caught committing questionable crimes and is detained in prison for 19 years. Because of his past, people constantly look down upon him. He meets Fantine, Cosette's mother who is on her death bed, and promises to rescue Cosette from the Thenardiers. After doing so, Cosette's love redeems him. He is immersed in love he has never felt. Cosette loves him and accepts him just as he is, regardless of the past. She saves him.

Javert relentlessly pursues Jean Valjean throughout the novel who wishes to make him pay for past errors. When Jean Valjean has the chance to get revenge on Javert by killing him, he doesn’t. Jean Valjean redeems Javert because God redeemed him.

The boy took him by the collar of his blouse and shook him, And at the same time he made an effort to move the big, iron-soled shoe which was placed his treasure” (35). In that scene Jean Valjean stole Petit Gervais forty-sous piece, and Valjean would not return it, to the owner Gervais. However, since Valjean was a prisoner for 19 years, in his mind he was still a bad guy because, he was considered a dangerous man, not only in his mind but he had a piece of paper that stated he was a dangerous man, After stealing from the Bishop and getting kicked out of many inns he must have convinced himself because, the brain is easy to trick so that is what happened to him. But, soon after he realized that stealing was bad, he thought about it as a little

The origin of the words “Bastille” comes from the Latin word bastions, which stands for fortress

Fantine shows how good of a mother she is by doing anything to keep Cosette well. Fantine only gives Cosette to the Thenardiers because she believes they will care for her daughter. If Fantine had kept Cosette she would’ve been turned away from many jobs due to her being a single mother with a child. When Fantine cuts off her hair and gets her teeth pulled she does this only because she really loves Cosette and it shows the pain she’ll go through to give Cosette a good

There were many candidates for my essays subject. I considered Jean Valjean, for we both put others ahead of ourselves. Marius was another candidate. He and I both have unpopular political views and have a tendency to rebel. However, I think the best choice for the essay is Javert. He was the very bottom of my list, but crawled his way to the top. As I read more about his character, it became more and more apparent that he was who I needed to write about. Of all the characters, I am most like Javert.

Jean reveals who he really is, when there is an accusation towards a man named Champmathieu claiming he is Jean Valjean. This proves that Valjean is brave because, he was hiding his identity for years and one day he had the courage to speak out and not be scared about the consequence. If Valjean kept silent, a innocent man would be sent to prison unjustly. In addition, “To live I stole a loaf of bread; today to live I will not steal a name” (386). Valjean admits to stealing a loaf of bread, and that was the reason why he went to prison. Being able to recognize the mistakes that once happened, because it relieves lies on top of other lies that pile up is really brave. Since Jean’s one event of stealing for his family turned his whole life around,

Fantine is the name of this woman . She is sick and wanting to see her child named         Cosette. Cosette  is with a family named the Thenardier’s . This family treats her horribly and asks for  money from her mother. When they ask for the money they are supposably going to use it for her daughter but, they don’t. Instaed they use it for their own daughters or themselves. Jean was the man  who took Fantine out in being in prison. She was going to be in prison just for attacking a guy who offended her . Also jean told her she was going to get a peace of territory. This wouldn’t have happened if he were to confess.Fantine would be in prison instead,in the streets ,and her daughter suffering .

In the folk tale: People can change like in the folk tale.The man eating monster found Little Listener, and she said, “You are my grandfather.” Then her brother can home from hunting, and she said, “Our grandfather is here now treat him like his our relative.” They did, but the monster thought the people in the town would be scared of him. The monster said to Little Listener to build him a sweat lodge, and make very hot, so she did. After a long time he came out as a man, and he cough something up. He said it was his heart throw in into the fire so that it melt. Little Listener melted a heart of ice with her kindness. What I think that can make people change is when you are kind and nice to them. Then they can see how nice you are and it can

The French Revolution was a series of revolts against the monarchy during the years 1789-1799. The cultural impact of the revolution is evident in modern day French culture in how they handle political and social disagreements. Jean ValJean’s story could be told in any other historical context that involves a basis of a dissatisfied, poor

In the other story ‘Civil Peace’ Johnathon didn’t have a lot of money and when people came to rob him he gave him what that wanted because he didn’t care. All he cared about was his family and that they were safe. He bought a bike and started to make money with that by being a taxi and he got back his money he lost in the robbery but he did not care because all he wanted was his family to be safe. H could live with nothing he could live in a box naked but, as long