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Youth
You're only young once—but in the world of Les Misérables, even that might be too long. Childhood in nineteenth century France is not some draw-out idyll of eating popsicles, drawing hearts in your Lisa Frank notebook, and scheming up ways to get out of doing your homework. Instead, it looks a lot more like scrounging for scraps on the streets, sleeping in hollow elephants, and trying to avoid physical abuse at the hands of the nearest. The flip side? If anything is going to change the world, it's going to be the idealism and optimism of the young.
In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo shows us that young people can be a truly transformative force in society once they start caring about something.
In Les Misérables, we learn that youth should be a time of ignorance and enjoyment, but that's not what most young people get to experience.
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