Oh God the young lovers are back, this is quite possibly worse than history lessons.
Marius and Cosette are continuing their tawdry love affair every night in Cosettes garden, nah it's not tawdry at all, it's perfectly innocent. It's too innocent actually.... Marius sneaks into the garden and they just sit together, and talk and look at each other, what the hell guys?? i remember being young and in love and let me tell you, talking was not high on my list of priorities at the time! But no they're both content to sit and look at each other for hours and hours and hours! I GET IT VICTOR HUGO, they're in love! can you pleeeeeeeeeease move on with the story!
Marius is so in love with her he likes to look at her eyes and her feet and bizarrely the "hairs on her neck"????? Yeah that confuses me.....I've never been so in love with a girl that i noticed her hairy neck, does Cosette have a particularly hairy neck? is she a werewolf? That would be an interesting twist at this point in the book!
Their happiness is cut short however when Jean Valjean announces that they have to move to England because it's too dangerous in Paris now that Thenardier has recognised him from the past, i don't think that's his only reason though, all that stuff with Thenardier and Javert happened weeks ago, why is he so worried now? why didn't he move straight away if he was that concerned, i suspect he's using it as an excuse to keep Cosette close to him, he's far too attached to that girl.
Marius is of course devastated and decides he'd rather die than be without Cosette, (Sigh, fucking teenagers are so dramatic aren't they!) Wait, Marius is twenty one........Oh my God stop being so stupid boy and grow some sense!
Eventually he decides to go back to his grandfather to get his permission to marry Cosette, but the grandfather just gives him money and tells him to make her his mistress instead. I've never been to clear about what a mistress is but I'm assuming he means to just keep Cosette for sex and not marry her. Marius is of course disgusted by that suggestion and when he goes back to Cosettes house she and Valjean are gone and he decides he has nothing to live for anymore and goes away to die in the upcoming revolution.
During all this time Eponine has been following Marius at night because she's still in love with him and she stumbles upon her dad and his mates plotting to break into Valjeans house, she decides to stop them by threatening to scream until the police come and that puts the gang off. I'm assuming she's doing all of this because of Marius, it doesn't seem like she cares that much about Valjean and Cosette, honestly the book isn't too clear about her motivations.
I actually feel a bit sorry for Eponine, Marius treats her a lot better in the musical than he does in the book, in the musical i get the feeling he has sort of sibling like affections for her but in the book he totally ignores her in favour of Cosette, guys can be such assholes sometimes!
MEANWHILE! the beginnings of the revolution are starting after the funeral of an important general, apparently he was the only person in power that cared about the people so now that he's dead it gives the students their excuse to start fighting. Jeez finally! I've only been waiting nearly 1000 pages for it!
VIVE LA REVOLUTION!!!!
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