DIRECTIONS: As we’ve discussed in class, Victor Hugo (Les Miserables) states that the three main problems of the age are:

-The degradation of man by poverty
-The ruination of women by starvation
-The dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night
For this assignment you will need to pick one character who suffers from one of these problems and complete a case study on them. Since you will eventually write an essay that talks about a problem you see in today’s world and also in Les Miserables, you may want to pick a character who falls into a category of suffering close to the problem you researched for your “Initial Research Assignment.”Your case study should have the name of the character as the title and then you will answer the following questions:

Write a summary of this character’s situation and how it connects to one of the three main problems of the age. This should be 100-200 words in length.

Explain the cause of their problem. How did it start? Who or what is responsible? This should be about 50-100 words in length.

Explain the end result of this issue. What was the fate of this character, because of this issue? This should be 50-100 words in length.

Explain what you think Victor Hugo’s intention was in putting this character in the novel. What did he want to point out about this character’s situation and its connection to the three main problems of the age? What should the reader take away from this character’s situation? This response should be 100-200 words.

Do you think this character’s situation was preventable or solvable? How? Explain. Your response to this question should be 100-200 words.

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Explanation:

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831.Poet, novelist, and dramatist Victor Hugo is considered the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country's greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) and Les Misérables (1862). it took twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862 for his book.Les Misérables was inspired in part by the true story of Eugène-François Vidocq, who turned a criminal career into an anti-crime industry. He created the Bureau des Renseignements, said to be the world's first detective agency, in 1833, though he himself continued to be pursued by police.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).