Les Miserables
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Cosette is abused and forced to work by the Thénardiers as a child before Jean Valjean adopts her.
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ChiaraBracciali
The Thénardiers are neglectful and abusive towards both their children and Cosette, who was left in their care by her mother.
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Lyria
If this is a trigger for you, I’d recommend avoiding the last few sections of Volume 5; (spoilers) the furniture in the room Valjean is staying in keeps getting removed, and both Marius and Valjean say that it’s normal whenever Cosette asks
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Is someone stalked?
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Multiple different times for many different reasons:
Javert and the police are following Valjean and Cosette when they leave Paris in Volume 2
Marius does some level of stalking to attempt to figure out where Cosette lives
Javert and the police are following Valjean and Cosette when they leave Paris in Volume 2
Marius does some level of stalking to attempt to figure out where Cosette lives
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Grantaire is an alcoholic
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Yes, a character named Grantaire drinks frequently.
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Does a pet die?
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Uncertain; the Thenardiers had a cat when they’re in Montfermeil and when the story focuses on them again in Paris they don’t. AFAIK, there’s no mention of what happened to it
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Does a horse die?
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There is a chapter called 'Death of a Horse'.
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Are there spiders?
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One gets mentioned very offhandedly in the first few chapters, but it’s very easy to skip
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Fantine has her teeth pulled out to sell them.
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Is there a hanging?
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Hangings of criminals are discussed but none is ever described taking place on page.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A young woman cuts off and sells her hair so she can pay for her sick daughter's medicine.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Jean Valjean is buried alive and then dug out again as part of an escape plan.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character commits suicide by this method.
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Does a kid die?
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takver
A child is shot and killed. Also, the fate of two impoverished, orphaned children is left unsaid but a grim ending is implied.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Yes, and it's very heartwrenching. A mother dies of pneumonia while waiting to see her child. A father also dies before he can be reunited with his estranged son. Finally, a father dies with his child at his bedside.
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Are there ghosts?
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Ryanale
This is debatable. When Jean Valjean is dying it says that he seems to see the, at this point long dead, Bishop Myriel and it is left to the reader to decide whether or not this was a ghost or a figment of his imagination.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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A character is sick for a prolonged period of time and she’s tended to by nurses and the main character before her death.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Yes, and he is successful.
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takver
First, a character deliberately burns his own flesh with a hot poker. He does this more to make a point about how tough he is than from self-loathing, though. Second, there is some pretty vicious emotional self-harm toward the end of the book. There is a character who denies himself loving social connections with his family because he thinks he doesn't deserve it. He has a daily ritual where he essentially punishes himself by starting to reach out for contact, then making himself stop, which drives him further into depression. Pretty rough reading.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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takver
No; however, there are a number of characters who go starving, or who are forced to ration a small amount of food over a long time, due to extreme poverty. This is sometimes described in detail.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Jean Valjean is buried alive in a coffin which is claustrophobic. Some of the scenes that take place in the sewers could be quite claustrophobic.
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Enjolras is described as looking like a young girl but is never actually referred to as a woman.
Eponine is mistaken for a boy when she is wearing men's clothing.
Eponine is mistaken for a boy when she is wearing men's clothing.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Okay...no character in Les Miserables is openly or explicitly gay (or bi or trans.) Some of the revolutionary students who die do have intense homosocial bonds with each other. You can kinda read into the text and decide that they're gay, but it's not really something I would say is canon.
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Is there hate speech?
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Hugo has pretty standard views for a 19th century white guy on several ethnicities. He’s good about it a lot of the time, but sometimes something wildly racist comes out during one of the digressions with little to no warning
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Nothing graphic. Sexual situations are described in very indirect terms.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vinny
depends on how you look at it. it’s bittersweet
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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takver
Actually, yes. Parents are shown placing coins in the shoes that children leave out for "the good fairy" on Christmas Eve. However, the book is much too difficult for young children to read.
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No, but a cart does, and the person it falls upon is crushed (but survives)
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Is there gun violence?
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During the fight at the barricade, characters shoot and are shot by the French army.
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Does someone drown?
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The scene is not graphic, and is done mostly by implication. As soon as the character has fallen into the water, the chapter ends.
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