Eponine starts out on a path more evil than not. Her father is Monsieur Thenardier. He is always scheming and looking for new ways to make money. He uses Eponine to beg for money and to steal, which she does. Although she is still a young girl, she has already broken many laws. She also develops a crush on Marius, her neighbor. He is in love with Cosette so Eponine tries to keep them apart. First, she will not tell him where she lives, and, later, she takes a letter that Cosette had left for Marius and hides it. Eponine then goes with Marius to the barricades. There, a soldier gets ready to shoot Marius. Eponine sees this and she takes the bullet for him. She also gives him the letter because she realizes that Cosette will make him happy and that is what she wants for him. He kisses her, and she dies in his arms. She may have started out on the wrong path, but she made up for it

The main character, Jean Valjean, underwent the transformation from nothingness to God. Valjean spent nineteen years of his life in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving nieces and nephews. When he is released, he literally has nothing-no one, no where to go, and no work. He stays with a Bishop, and ends up stealing his silverware. When the police bring Valjean back to the Bishop, he tells the officers that it was a gift. He also gives him the candlesticks, telling him that he "has just purchased his soul for God." At first, Valjean does not understand the words of the Bishop; but, he soon realizes their true meaning, and he turns his life around. He begins using the skills that he learned in prison in order to make money. He uses that money to help others, and, he even becomes the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer. He brings up Cosette as if she was his own, and he loves her dearly. He continues trying to help others wherever he goes; but Cosette is now most important. She is his life, his love, and his light. She falls in love with a man that is involved in the revolution, Marius. When he is injured, Valjean takes him through the sewers in order to save him for Cosette. The two then get married and Valjean is alone again. He suffers from extreme loneliness and becomes deathly ill. He still has the candlesticks; they are a constant reminder of the bishop and his words. He says that he hopes that the bishop is pleased with him. He soon dies; but he dies happy because he was loved. He went and joined Fantine in Heaven.

The people of France, mainly the downtrodden and poor, found a path to justice amidst injustice. Many had died fighting for the republic; they had won, and yet, there was again a monarchy in power.

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Inspector Javert, God Valjean, Marius Eponine, Les Miserables, Knowing Cosette, Heaven Fantine's, ABC Club, Cosette Eponine, Enjolras ABC, Monsieur Thenardier, scum earth, hell heaven, fantine heaven, god valjean, entire life, nothingness god,