, where I have read the sad story of Fantine, I went and watched the video of Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream." Makes me cry every time. Reading Les Miserables, however, I feel that Victor Hugo could have cut her a little break. Couldn't she have met nice folks to entrust her daughter to? Does the local cop have to be this Javert fellow? Everywhere she goes, people are cruel, and while I accept that wherever you go there will be some cruel people, it seems like in Les Miserables wherever you go almost everybody is cruel and only one or two people, if any, are kind. Maybe it was like that in 19th Century France.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Kindness
Well, in honor of my progress through Les Miserables, where I have read the sad story of Fantine, I went and watched the video of Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream." Makes me cry every time. Reading Les Miserables, however, I feel that Victor Hugo could have cut her a little break. Couldn't she have met nice folks to entrust her daughter to? Does the local cop have to be this Javert fellow? Everywhere she goes, people are cruel, and while I accept that wherever you go there will be some cruel people, it seems like in Les Miserables wherever you go almost everybody is cruel and only one or two people, if any, are kind. Maybe it was like that in 19th Century France.
, where I have read the sad story of Fantine, I went and watched the video of Susan Boyle singing "I Dreamed a Dream." Makes me cry every time. Reading Les Miserables, however, I feel that Victor Hugo could have cut her a little break. Couldn't she have met nice folks to entrust her daughter to? Does the local cop have to be this Javert fellow? Everywhere she goes, people are cruel, and while I accept that wherever you go there will be some cruel people, it seems like in Les Miserables wherever you go almost everybody is cruel and only one or two people, if any, are kind. Maybe it was like that in 19th Century France.
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