Let us discuss! Here are prompts for all the chapters read this week. Let these questions inspire your discussion but don't feel limited!

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1. What are your thoughts about the author's craft (and/or translator's craft) in this chapter? Which line did you enjoy the most and which the least and why did you like/dislike this specific line? Were there any literary devices that stood out to you or descriptions of people, clothing, scenery etc. that were of interest to you?
2. It's now a cliché that the bad guy spends all his time monologuing instead of acting. In my opinion, the end of the chapter was suspenseful, but also very much like a comic book - Leblanc gets his hands free while Thenardier won't stop talking, re-brands himself to erase his prison number, no time for throat cutting, Javert shows up right on time...
3. Did you have a favorite line or passage from this chapter? If so, what made it stand out to you?
4. A street child (Gavroche, who Hugo tells us we met in Part Two of the book) comes to see his family only to find they are all in separate prisons. What do you think he will do with himself now that they are gone?
5. What about Hugo's thoughts on the Bourbons? It sounded almost as if the reason he thinks they were deposed and deposable was because they lacked an almost undefinable quality of grandeur and authority.
6. Lafayette! I imagine that name would have been unknown to modern audiences a decade ago, whereas now the name is far more well-known.
7. In the previous chapter, it sounds like Hugo disapproves of the way Louis Phillipe became king:This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of 1830." When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became apparent. But in this chapter, he doesn't seem to have much criticism of the character of Louis Phillipe. Do you have a clearer picture of Hugo's views of this time and this king?
8. Any other thoughts?