s trailing Marius. That brings Javert back on the trail of Valjean. Once again, he can not escape his past. Cosette and Marius fall in love and plan to wed. Before they could wed, Marius had to go into battle. He led mobs of people to police barricades and started fighting. Marius gets knocked unconscious and winds up in a sewer. Valjean knows how much Marius means to his adopted daughter and saves him. Javert finds Valjean during this and they end up getting into a fight. Javert ends up dying. Valjean finally reveals his past to Cosette and Marius. Valjean tells Cosette and Marius that the only thing that matters is love. Valjean is able to forgive and love everybody except for himself. Due to this, he died of a broken heart.Les Miserable, by Victor Hugo not only shows how your surroundings can change but it shows how you, yourself, can change as a person. Valjean kept trying to clean up his life, but his past just kept following. This novel also shows the kind of things that happened during the French Revolution. Les Miserables is a classic. ...