He is very self-confident. Despite his saucy exterior, he can often be sensitive and caring towards others, and is also affiliated with Les Amis. It is also made clear that Gavroche is in fact quite clever and street-smart, as he has survived many years by himself on the streets of Paris. He is also caring towards his sister, especially in the film adaptation.
Gavroche is featured in the stage musical. In the musical, much of his character remains unchanged. In the film adaptation , Gavroche is depicted as the strongest supporter of the Les Amis de l'ABC , sharing their revolutionary ideas for the future, and is good friends with all of them: Marius , Enjolras , Grantaire , Joly , Combeferre , Jehan , and in particular, Courfeyrac.
Gavroche sometimes hides in an elephant statue with other poor children, like in the book. Gavroche is thought of by the ABC as a brother and he thinks of them in the same way. Gavroche helps interrupt Lamarque's funeral procession, and also helps to build the barricade. Gavroche later warns Marius to be careful on the barricade.
Gavroche is also shown to be devastated when she is killed. His brutal honesty makes him both an irreproachable policeman and a terrible spy. His deadpan sense of humor sometimes serves to make him even more frightening, such as in his dramatic entrance to the 'Jondrette' household with the line "Would you like my hat? When he's not snarking, however, he tends to be abrupt and serious, talking in concise sentences.
On occasion he allows himself a pinch of snuff when especially satisfied with himself. He also has the habits of muttering into his cravat, fiddling with small objects, and dramatizing tense situations such as the confrontations with Valjean and Patron-Minette.
Though at first glance Javert seems as straightforward a character as he would no doubt like you to believe, he has serious issues in his worldview and his self-image.
Due to the inflexibility and abrupt decisiveness inherent to his beliefs "if you abide the law, you are good; once you break it, you are evil" , he is quick to condemn and has no intention of trying to understand any deeper moral struggles or dilemmas, such as the situation of year-old Jean Valjean.
Since he never encounters any contradictions to this worldview that smack him in the face, he's quite willing to ignore the evidence and hold on to his overly simple black-and-white belief system, which is part of the reason he is confident to the point of recklessness.
Since he himself falls into the "evil" part of his world--being the son of criminals--his self-image has suffered; on multiple occasions in the book, he makes it clear that he doesn't believe he deserves good things in life, including kindness that he doesn't ask for, and he considers himself worthless due to his origins.
The satisfaction he derives from persecuting lawbreakers can be seen as his own way of coping with his crushing self-reproach, though as a coping mechanism little can be said for it. Apart from his own self-loathing, his black-and-white worldview doesn't appear to cause him problems, though it's quite prominent, until the chapter Javert Derailed also Javert in Disarray, Javert Off the Track, Javert's Derailment, etc.
Jean Valjean sparing his life, even when there was a considerable benefit to not doing so, means that Jean Valjean--an ex-convict, a parole-breaker, a recidivist besides--is good. Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 60k times. Was it because he felt he had failed? Was it because he didn't want to be indebted to a criminal?
Was it because he realised he'd been pursuing a good man? I can see these reasons upsetting him but not enough to take his own life! Improve this question. AakashM 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Liath Liath Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Javert reveals his reasons in the song he sings when he commits suicide.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. All of the lyrics to that song are relevant, such as "Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief! Thomas I agree, but some of the earlier parts of the song are a bit more defiant. I tried to id the point where he seems resigned to his fate.
From wikipedia : When Valjean saves his life, Javert finds himself unable to reconcile his life's work pursuing criminals with the nobility and justice shown him by the man he thought was a criminal, and takes his own life by jumping off a bridge into the river Seine.
Maurizio In denmark Maurizio In denmark 4 4 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. RedCaio I regret that I have but one upvote to give for your pun! Tom Tom 1, 7 7 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. The students need the bullets that lie in the street.
Marius volunteers to pick them up, but Valjean insists that he will go instead. Little Gavroche is quicker than either of them and scrambles up the barricade. He is instantly killed. The voice on the megaphone again warns the students that since the people of Paris sleep in their beds instead of coming to their aid, they have no chance of winning. The students refuse to surrender, and the army mounts a fierce attack. Only Marius and Valjean survive. Valjean carries the wounded Marius down a manhole into a sewer.
Javert returns and searches for Valjean's body. Not finding him among the dead, he concludes that he must have escaped into the sewer. He strips the dead of their valuables and dumps the bodies in the mud of the sewers.
Then he recognizes Valjean and runs away. Javert finds Valjean. Valjean asks Javert to allow him to take Marius to safety. Then he will return and surrender to Javert.
This time, Javert agrees to Valjean's request and says he will be waiting. Javert waits, desperately confused. His enemy has spared his life. He says he cannot live in the debt of a thief. He will spit Valjean's pity back in his face because the law cannot be mocked.
He realizes that his own life has no meaning because Valjean has indeed proven that a man can be redeemed and should be forgiven. Doubt destroys Javert, whose world is held together by the force of rigid rules. Valjean has killed him by granting his life. Javert jumps to his death. The women of Paris mourn the dead students, saying that nothing has changed as the result of their deaths. Marius sings a song of mourning for his dead companions. He begs their forgiveness for the fact that he survived.
At the hospital where he is recovering, Marius tells Cosette that he still doesn't know who saved him at the barricade. They plan to marry; Marius invites Valjean to live with them.
Valjean confesses his past to Marius, explaining that Cosette knows nothing about his real identity. He says he must keep running. Marius agrees never to tell Cosette the truth about her adoptive father's past. As a result, Marius learns that Jean Valjean is the man who carried him through the sewers to safety. Valjean is alone in a room, dying. He is having visions of Fantine. Marius and Cosette burst into his room. Marius tells Cosette that he now knows her father is the one who saved his life.
Valjean tells her the truth about her mother. His vision of Fantine is joined by a vision of Eponine. As he dies, Valjean and his visions remind Cosette of the everlasting power of love telling her that "to love another person is to see the face of God. The entire company sings of "the music of a people who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies.
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