Les Miserables is one of the most captivating plays of our lifetime! It grabs the audience and pulls you in head first. You can't take out eyes off of the stage, and even if you can,the music will take your breath away! I have seen the play 3times and I don't think I enjoy anything in this world morethan watching that play!Les Miserables starts off on a chain gang in France. Thesheriff comes out and gives one of the convicts his releasepapers. This convict is the lead role who name is JeranValjean, who has served 19 years on the chain gang forstealing a mouthful of bread. Jean Valjean leaves the prisonand sets out to find work. But no one will give him workbecause of his tattoo which reads 24601, his prison ID number. Then in the time when he couldn't be more down a priestinvites Valjean to stay with him. Despite the kind priest takinghim in and feeding him, Valjean decides to take the silver fromthe table. In the run he gets captured be the police. Butinstead of telling the truth about Valjeans thievery, he givesthe criminal more silver and sends the police away. He makesJean Valjean promise that he will become an honest man withthis silver.The next scene in 10 years later set in a factory where wemeat the other main character, Fantine. As she is reading aletter her perverted boss snatches it up with his hands andreads it aloud. Fantine has a daughter that lives with aninnkeeper and his wife who are the only ones in this wholeplay that give some comedy relief. They treat her daughterhorribly and when the boss finds out that she has a daughterhe thinks of her as a prostitute and kicks her out of thefactory, which is in the town in which the new honest Valjeanis the mayor. To support her child Fantine sells her chain andher locks of hair. Then later because she can't find workbecomes a prostitute. Later a respected person in the community felt an itchfor a poke at a female and went to Fantine. Fantine realizesthat day ...
