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Suffering
Wait, did you think that a book called Les Misérables was going to be all sunshine and rainbows? (Of course you didn't; you're Shmoopers.) The stinkin' book has "suffering" in its very name, so no surprises here: pretty much everyone in all 1,200 pages suffers in some way. Okay, so suffering in a big fancy house with a lot of money is probably easier than suffering on the street, but the point is that life is hard. No matter who you are. It just is. That's probably why two of the most important qualities you can have in Victor Hugo's world are faith and resilience.
In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo says that suffering will always exist. You just need to make sure that someone else does the suffering and not you.
Les Misérables wants us to know that our lifelong duty is to take away other people's suffering in whatever way we can.
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