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. Valjean is still the man we met in the beginning. Javert expectations were dashed yet he remains unchanged ultimately, what might this military man do?
   
2. This seems to be the Friends' mistake: "Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, from the lie of yesterday." Thoughts? We saw the Friends themselves making anti-war comments, so wouldn't starting war be a bad way to attract like-minded people?
   
3. "Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under his embrasure, without having even seen him." What do you make of this? It sounds like Enjolaras was holding back, but why?
   
4. Were there any instances of figurative language you thought added to the narrative of this chapter?
   
5. Grantaire – I forgot all about him! …… well that was anti-climatic. Should he have at least tried to do something?
   
6. Valjean encounters the same enemies and the same obstacles multiple times. Here, he finds himself in a similar situation as when he was almost caught by Javert with Cosette. That time, he was saved by a convent; now, he's saved by a sewer. Do you think there is any meaning in this pattern of repeated problems?
   
7. I'm more and more amazed by this chapter: "Thanks to human dung, the earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham." Honestly, why is he combining poop and Bible talk?
8. Any other thoughts?