Jean Val Jean (Chapter 6 and 7 - The Mayor) Flashcards
What are the moral of these chapters is the same as the moral of the entire novel. What is that moral?
“To participate in help or good as much as you ca in life”
How is the difference from the description we were given at the beginning of chapter II? What do they show us about the changed Jean Val Jean?
Chapter VI: grizzly gray hair and whiskers, wearing a cap with a broad peak turned up as if not caring who looked up at him and in the face, was a sunny bright face, with firm steps as if he knew where he was going.
Chapter II: A ragged, dirty tramp, stopping at the first horse through and drinking as though he had not quenched his thirst all day, broad shoulders , limbs and frames of a giant, who was also wearing a dirty linen shirt and a blue trouser with mismatch coloring all around, a coarse workman’s boots, and a cap pulled down over the eyes holding a old knapsack.
How did Jean Val Jean use a skill he had practiced in prison to save Fauchelevent?
using the skills he had learned and the muscular build he had achieve from those exercises and labor.
What does the author mean when he says, “… no mention of this was made lest it might seem to the sick man an act of charity and would his independent spirit
After the incident with Father Fauchelevent, Jean Val Jean had paid for his cart and horse as it was unrepairable but it wasn’t’ in act of charity but was a act of kindest. This was because Jean didn’t want to embarrass Father Fauchelevent as he was an independent person.
What insight do we get into human nature when Javert takes the side of the influential citizen against the poor woman? Are such injustice still practiced today? Explain.
Javert is a perfectionism and knows that the influential citizen has more power, money, connections, etc. But one thing that Javert knows is that the Influential Citizen is more likely in the right which is the common sense as one looks likes a crack head and homeless person while the other one looks like a proper citizen.
how did Jean help Fantine, and what promise did he make to her?
Jean Val Jean had helped Fantine get a job, though she was fired, helped her not get arrested and sent for six months. Jean also had promised Fantine that he would get her daughter back to her so she could she her one more time.
What event or action did Jean Val Jean do you live another life and not get his passport check?
Jean Val Jean had dashed into a burning building saving 2 children who were the children of chief guardsman. Changing has name to Madeline.
After Jean Val Jean started a new life, what did he do/start that he learned from a ex-convict from Toulon to make him wealth?
Jean Val Jean has learned of a formula that made making an imitate jet(plastic) more better and cheaper than the original one, making his success quick.
After Jean Val Jean started a new life, what did he do/start that he learned from a ex-convict from Toulon to make him wealth?
Jean Val Jean has learned of a formula that made making an imitate jet(plastic) more better and cheaper than the original one, making his success quick.
