Wowzers! Two vids in one night! And I only stayed up til 12:30 am! XD
Anyways, I’m FINALLY to the part that I wanted to do so badly when I started this whole project. We’re finally getting into the good stuff!
WHAT’S GOING ON:
Fast forward 10-15 years to the future! We are now focusing in on Paris, France. The year is 1832. It’s been 40 years now since the French Revolution. The country is now in an economic depression, like all countries go through after a revolution. Money is getting extremely hard to come by, crime is up, and many are starving. The poor are getting frustrated at the new government. An ambitious group of students at the university are getting antsy. They are planning to get what they want, using force. (That was y’all’s history lesson! XD)
Now, in this scene, we focus in on three big characters, one of them being the male lead of the show. Gavroche, the youngest of the Thenardiers (at least, he is in the book….), is the definition of a street rat. He lives off of whatever he can steal. Two younger boys follow him, and he claims that he is their father, “after all, I do take care of them”. They call him Papa and everything….kinda weird…but anyways. The young boy (he’s not even in his preteens yet) is at the head of the uprising. He yells out to the Parisians daily, asking them to join him in the uprising.
Marius, the male lead of the show (second only to Valjean) is a young 19-20ish man who is a student at the university. Everyday, he and his friends drink at a bar, talking about how they’ll change the world. Now that the only government official who actually listened to the commoners and strived to solve the problems of France is dying of age, they decide to do something about. There is talk of barricades.
Enter Enjolras, Marius’s best friend. Enjolras is the leader of the students. I think he fears the barricades a bit, but I don’t know (I’ve never actually SEEN the show, just read all I can about it and read the book…:3).
So, yah, that’s about all that’s going on. Sorry for the long description, but it’ll make more sense now that I’ve explained it a bit.
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