Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables and later produced as a movie by Columbia Pictures in 1998. One of the main characters Javert was a middle age man who was a tall, black-haired man with a stern look on his face all the time. He was a guard that worked at a prison and was in control of what the prisoners do or don’t do. At this prison, a young prisoner was there for 19 years and went by the name of Jean ValJean. These two men had a relationship that was yet to be discovered but would come to be soon in the future. The relationship that was established at the prison would end up lasting for the rest of their lives. The impact that change can make on one person can affect many lives around them, it’s if the person allows themself to change that can determine the good or bad from situations. …show more content…
He based his life on being the best and anyone below him would obey him, and if anyone acted up or disobeyed the rules then there would be severe punishment. If a man were to even be released from prison but was still known as a convict then he would chase after that person and make sure justice was upheld. Jean ValJean had stolen a loaf of bread and that was why he was imprisoned for nineteen years. Javert was obviously the person in charge over the prisoners at the prison, and that is where him and ValJean began their relationship that would last forever. Javert would always have the remembrance of ValJean in his mind and would do anything to bring him back into prison and take away all he had. He had no forgiveness in his heart and thought only of what was right by following the law which actually was not always the right thing to
Les 400 Coups by François Truffaut displays personal cinema by sharing his own thoughts through the eyes of Antoine. As stated in the lecture video, cinema was a way for Truffaut to escape from his unhappy home life. His unfortunate home life is shown through the perspective of Antoine to display how Truffaut may have felt when he was a child. François Truffaut makes the audience feel sympathy and a sense of understanding for Antoine's predicament through the use of realistic and noteworthy sets.
After reading" Life Sentence" by Christopher Shea, I totally agree with what he is trying to reveal. In the beginning of the reading, Shea mentioned all these “What if” questions to get you thinking before he starts explaining his claim. His claim in this article was that prisons have a greater impact than most people think it does. Prisons don’t just punish criminals during their time, they still punish them even after they’ve paid their time.
He had his reasons for doing what he did, and was justified
His whole life he believed in doing what was right, and burning books, because the government categorize them as “useless” and “wrong” if they were used. But when Montag met a teenage girl named Clarisse, she started to ask Montag about his life. One question that Clarisse asked him was “are you happy?” Clarisse was asking him if his life truly made him happy or not. This intrigued Montag, it made him look at his life, which made him realize that he really wasn't happy with his life.
He also states that the breaking of certain laws is a practiced that can be seen throughout history, "It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than to submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire." Because
He didn’t believe how this could happen to innocent people who never did anything. The jews had thought they were getting punished for something they have done. He never really understood what was happening and even how it happened. He lost everything had He had lost his mom and his sister. He didn’t understand how god could take all this away from him.
He acted on his emotions, mainly anger and stubbornness, which eventually leads to his downfall. He didn’t use his logic before he made his actions, which supports the theme of the story, that
(Miller 91). He knew he was in control when it came to who was going to jail and who was going to die, and it seemed like he was more proud of his power and more concerned with destruction than he was about justice. Since he was the judge, people trusted him to act on wisdom and intelligence, not superstition, which is in the end what
On the contrary, they continue to misbehave as the way that had them chained up. Rehabilitating from crime is similar to recovering from drug abuse, the most effective way to cut off from further engagement is to keep anything related out of reach. Yet, the prison has done the opposite, no prisoner can reform under such circumstance. Prison is supposed to put an end to criminal activities but it turns out to be the extension; crime keeps happening in and out of the prison and criminals stay as
It can affect someone in many ways, whether relationships, mental deterioration, trust issues. While being in prison many learn to cope with the trials and tribulations of imprisonment but the lasting impact of knowing deep down in your heart you had nothing to do with the crime you are being accused of, that makes you lose a certain sense of hope and lose faith in people and the justice system. Finding a means to manage prison violence must have been a struggling reality, not only that being publicly accused of a crime, have your name and reputation tarnished for the years of the trail and the time you are incarcerated everyone builds a negative mental image of you and judge you before you can justify
As you can read in the quote, Jean Valjean just thought it was an unknown person and he also was not aware of Cosette talking with Marius during this time. Jean Valjean probably thought that someone saw them as a target for something or that Javert knew where he was, and if Javert would catch him, he would not be able to provide safety for Cosette anymore. Another event, happening during this time, was Jean Valjean receiving a note with the words REMOVE on it. ‘’He was about to turn around, when a folded paper fell upon his knees, as if a hand had dropped it from above his head. He took the paper, unfolded it, and read on it this word, written in large letters with a pencil: REMOVE.’’
This can lead to them changing as a person which is what we would want; a changed person to come out of those prison doors and back into society for another chance. Involving higher education in prisons would help stop the revolving door of the ghetto-to- prison that has now helped build America to be in this current time of mass incarceration. It would return these prisoners to our society as more job ready than when they went in and be able to legitimately support their families and be less of a threat to society than before. This wouldn’t always be the case but you would see a drastic change in the number of re-incarcerations.
For this week’s assignment, we were assigned to watch Hugo, which to me was very enjoyable. The film tells viewers about the life of an orphaned young boy named Hugo Cabret. In the movie, Hugo is on a quest for survival. Through this he learns valuable life lessons. Volger’s archetypes, the historical aspects of the narratives in the film, and actor portrayls all serve as a reflection of Hugo’s heroism.
The autobiography, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, provides a vivid insight into the complicated, yet exhilarating, life of Rousseau. The beginning of his life was filled with misfortunes, such as the death of his mother which was quickly followed by a distraught and self-sabotaging attitude which his father adopted. This led to his father’s involvement in illegal behaviors and the subsequent abandonment of Rousseau. His mother’s death was the catalyst for his journey to meet multiple women who would later affect his life greatly. The Influence of Miss Lamberciers, Madame Basile, Countess de Vercellis, and Madam de Warens on the impressionable adolescent mind of Rousseau led to the positive cultivation of self-discovery and the creation of new experiences, as well as the development of inappropriate sexual desires and attachments towards women.
This is another reason I believe violence would a occur. Inmates are not treated with respect and like how normal individuals are. They makes them act differently towards others during their incarceration. They have a fraud up because they are well aware of the lack of respect. There is human instinct to protect thyself and that comes out in this situation.