2.8.4 chapter discussion (spoilers up to 2.8.4)

Discussion prompts:

1. We have more detail of the plan, and more insight into the convent and people (the drunken gravedigger, for example). Do these people feel “real” to you?

2. Sometimes I forget that Valjean is a fugitive from the law, and spent many years as a convict. His view of the world is shaped so strongly by those experiences.

3. Cosette heard all of this. How do you think she is going to react?

4. Anything else you want to discuss about the book or the story?

Last line

‘Imagine how terrible that could be!’

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