![]() ![]() There, Eponine meets Marius, the young man whom readers know from the prologue, if not from the source text, that she will die saving. ![]() As Eponine grows up, her internal conflicts grow deeper: please her family or follow her conscience? Do good deeds or cruel ones? Steal or starve? Eponine’s choices and observations are rendered in simple and evocative language-a pebble of sadness knocking in her heart when she longs to be loved, viscerally felt daydreams “that one day I’d be pretty, and I walk with a boy…in a skirt that went shush…shush…shush.” When Eponine’s father kills a man in a robbery gone wrong, the family flees to Paris. She feels uncomfortable cheating people, but she loves the way a successful night of thievery elicits her mother’s pride and affection. The story of Eponine Thenardier, a side character from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, is told here, from early childhood to untimely death.īorn to almost cartoonishly money-hungry parents, Eponine is taught to steal from a young age. ![]()
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