Les mis Essay

In Les Miserables, there are different types of characters like static characters and dynamic characters. Dynamic characters are characters that change throughout the story just like Jean Valjean did over and over again.
Jean Valjean started off in the story being a helpful man and just trying to help out his sister and her family after her husband died. Jean Valjean was just trying to get some food for his sister's children but he made a huge mistake to steal a loaf of bread from the bakery. That's when it all went south for him. The police got him and took him to jail and he stayed there for 19 years for a crime that would have only cost him 5 years of his life. That was the moment that he turned bitter because of the fact that he was treated badly for a crime that could have fed his family.
The thing that made him hate everyone even more then he was before was when he got of jail he was supposed to get paid about 200 franks for all of the work he did but at the end, they only gave him 150 franks. Which made him believe that everyone was horrible and only cared about them selfs. Just then something changed in him when he stole from the bishop of Digne. When he stole the silvers from the bishop the police got him and took him to the bishop to see what he wanted to do with Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean thought that the bishop was going to have the police take him back to jail but that's not what completely happened.
What the bishop did next surprised everyone especially Jean Valjean. The bishop asked him why didn't he steals the candle stand that he had left in his room that had more value but he didn't. At that moment Jean Valjean was confused on why the bishop would want him to steal from him until the bishop gave his some advice about himself and that's when he changes again just by the words that the bishop spoke to him.
Jean Valjean went to go reflect on his actions when he sees a little boy playing with a coin and the coin rolls by Jean Valjean foot and he grabs it and with the intention of stealing the cion from the little boy. The second that he sees the little boy run away crying something changes in him and realized how bad he felt. At that moment we see Jean Valjean shed hot tears down his cheek. Jean Valjean relisted that he was turning bad but he didn't let it completely change him.