Those scenes mostly include the Students fighting at the Barricade. In that section of the book it is very clear how kind and loving this older man is to a young girl he has never seen before in his life.īecause of the way the book is written there are a number of scenes that had to be cut out, which I understand, however, I wish there was a way that they could have been left in. One of my favorite sections was when Jean Valjean at the Thenardier's inn to take Cosette away. Some of the best parts about this book is that because it is written in the form of a letter, we see more of Jean Valjean's emotions, what he was feeling at certain times of the story. However, all the important parts of the book are still kept in, including things that are not in the musical version of Les Miserables, such as Jean Valjean being arrested again and escaping after falling into a river. Her adaptation of the book is written like a letter from Jean Valjean to Cosette, which means it cuts out a lot of back story, because Jean Valjean would not know of those things. Monica Kulling, however, does a wonderful job. It's hard to imagine how someone could manage to get a 1000+ page book shortened enough so that it is only slightly over a hundred pages while managing to keep the entire story.
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