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yerssot
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what would you have changed or left out?

Oct 2nd, 2004 01:40 PM

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urthstripe321
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I definitely wouldn't make it so wordy. He often went off on these tangents about something that barely has to do with the subject, and he should have left that out. And another thing that threw me off is the overly sappy last few pages, or page, rather. You have all these pages of buildup, and then everything important he has to say, he says while dying in like two pages. That just threw me off.

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Oct 2nd, 2004 05:11 PM

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yerssot
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but if he went and didn't get it all on one page, it would have been even longer and you wouldn't have liked that either blink

Oct 2nd, 2004 05:20 PM

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then it shouldn't have been that long in the first place. He already wrote10,000,000 pages, what a couple hundred more going to do? Or else, that's how long it felt.

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Oct 2nd, 2004 09:24 PM

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but the idea was that it should be long to show that he builds up a life time after time but that it fails

Oct 2nd, 2004 10:54 PM

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i don't think his attempt to build a life fails. He earns the love of his daughter, and the respect of many others, and that's all he really wanted.

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Oct 2nd, 2004 11:15 PM

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indeed, but it's still that the inspector hunts him down

Oct 2nd, 2004 11:20 PM

urthstripe321
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then he realizes his fault and commits suicide

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Oct 3rd, 2004 03:22 AM

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ow, now you ruined the fun in the entire book ... I like that evil face

I think it takes guts to redeem yourself after you have done...what was it? 10 years of hunting someone down?

Oct 3rd, 2004 09:57 AM

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well, we talked about this in class ( I read this for school) What happened was that he realized what he was been doing for his entire life was wrong, but he really couldn't accept that, but he knew he couldn't keep on going the way he was going, because he realized it was wrong. So he committed suicide.

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Oct 3rd, 2004 03:37 PM

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indeed, but I mean, accepting that what you have been doing for your entire life is wrong is not easy so he has to have a great sense to understand that

Oct 3rd, 2004 05:04 PM

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well it kind of hit him right over the head. It's hard to miss that the person you've been hunting just spared your life.

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Oct 3rd, 2004 10:06 PM

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but that doesn't mean he's right

Oct 4th, 2004 09:21 PM

urthstripe321
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wha? what? You said, "indeed, but I mean, accepting that what you have been doing for your entire life is wrong is not easy so he has to have a great sense to understand that." I replied that it was kind of hard not to see he was wrong as Valjean spared his life.

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Oct 5th, 2004 12:36 AM