I am Eponine in more than just the "He will never love me because he is in a relationship that is really good for the two of them" kind of way. I am Eponine in the "I also happen to have a despicable personality" way, too.
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I feel like that sometimes.
Les Mis is really applicable to real life, believe it or not.
No clue who Eponine is. Read Les Mis... sorta.
Oh, come on... it's a BEAUTIFUL book. Great themes. Amazing, on the whole.
Yes, Les Mis really is a much better book than most give it credit for... and I've got my own Eponine to my Cosette and my lover's Marius. Sometimes you can't help but fall into literary roles, if literature is simply trying to retell the great human drama as it happens again and again throughout the ages.
The book was okay. It could have used an editor, but on the whole it was a good read.
Eponine, by the way, is the daughter of two people who are more morally decrepit than most genocidal dictators. Although she falls in love with the flawless hero Marius, who is incidentally in love with a weak but rich pansy named Cosette, Eponine cannot rise above the fact that she was raised to be an awful person, and when she figures out that she can't have Marius, she leads him to the barricades where the Almost Revolution of 1848 is taking place, so that he will die. The logic is that if she can't have him, then nobody can.
And then she ends up taking a bullet for him. She's despicable, but the reader also feels sorry for her because she really does love him, in her own weird way.
Haha, Petit Gervais took a bullet too.
I loved that part. I hated Petit Gervais. Even if he and the priest were having a "special mass" or whatever all those references to "touching him" were about.
I do believe that Gavroche is the one you speak of, Anonymous 5. Petit Gervais was the Savoyard from whom Jean Valjean stole a fourty-sous piece.
Ah yes. But then...taking a bullet? TF, you confuse me.
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
oh god no more les mis references please
oh, by the way. the reason that les mis could have used more editing and why it has a tendancy to ramble is that back then authors published in periodicals. so they were paid by the page, which meant that they would write until they exhausted their topic or plot just to make a lot of money, however artistically it was done. take alexander dumas's the count of monte cristo, same deal.
No! Not the musical version! However good or bad it may be, it's condensation of some of the relationships totally screws them up. I was referring to the book version.
Hah-, two comments above me. You do realize that the entire post is pure Les Mis references?
I'm more of a Jean Valjean kind of girl.
"I'm more of a Jean Valjean kind of girl."
Why do we always love the tortured ones? :)
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