#3.3.5

Marius is raised among the ultras and as such, he has no conception of temperance or nuance. He dislikes his grandfather, perhaps even because Gillenormand is a bourgeois and not an aristocrat! As I talked about in 3.2.4 and 3.3.3, the ultras cannot be satisfied with any social class below royalty itself, there is such a craving for that perceived prestige. He is extreme in his restraints to the point he circles right back around to fanaticism. This lays an interesting groundwork for a character arc. 

This is something I always felt the musical lacked; Marius is treated as little more than a flat Romeo, his weakness just being the blindness of love. And we see very early here that Marius’s problem is the exact opposite: he has no love at all. To me, this makes the fact that he is so out of touch with his emotions, that he idolizes his own feelings of love later on, that he’s willing to die in its absence so much more meaningful. Marius isn’t just navigating a new political landscape, he’s also emotionally adrift. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Oof, the parallels of Marius and Cosette, both of their parents forced to watch them from afar, trying to get back to them only for it to come too late. Marius is obviously coming from a more privileged position but I can’t help but think...Cosette grows up with the knowledge she was loved by her mother, she had Valjean and Fauchelevent and the convent. Marius gets nothing, he arrives too late for even a single gesture of affection from his father. How could Marius have changed as a person, as a character, had he been allowed even that? It’s an overlooked tragedy, I think.

You really have to appreciate the fact that Monsieur Mabeuf (the same who raises the red flag on the barricade? I can’t remember but that seems like quite the coincidence) is so immediately willing to spill this sad story to any 18 year old he runs across in church apropos of nothing.

“Why? I will tell you.” -ancient Hugonian proverb

Gillenormand (look at this asshole down there, ugh) is right that there is a love affair, but it’s with Bonapartism, not any earthly body. The actual title of the chapter (bad, Wraxall translation, bad) is “The Utility of Going to Mass, to Become Revolutionary.” Revolutionary is a bit of a strong word, but Marius is definitely primed to dabble in some imperialism.

Marius so, so desperately wants to be loved. And at the first hint of it, at the word of a stranger whose only proof for his word is the sincerity of his feelings and the fact that he didn’t know who Marius was before, at the first statement that everything he thought he knew was wrong, Marius latches on and never lets go. He hears that his father loved him and he believes it, because he has been taught not to question, because Mabeuf has no reason to lie, because he wants so desperately for it to be true.

The main thing I took from this chapter is that politics/political opinions are incomplete without their being love for family and others, as Mabeuf says in his speech to Marius. ‘Certainly I'm in favour of political opinions, but there are people who don’t know where to stop [...] You don’t keep a father away from his child for that.’

New Post has been published on https://www.allmoddedapk.com/flip-diving-mod-apk/

Flip Diving Mod 3.3.5 Apk [Unlimited Money]

Flip Diving 3.3.5 Mod Apk – Super beautiful bold dive game for Android Normal version + Mod version (infinite money) individually tested with offline performance

Flip Diving A popular and interesting game in the style of sports games; With over 50 million downloads from the Android Market from Miniclip.com Studio for Android devices Which is offered for free and is one of the best! Flip Diving is one of the most interesting and dynamic diving games you have ever seen, which takes you in different and dangerous environments for diving and the possibility of performing all kinds of diving movements such as diving from the front, diving from the back. , Hangs from behind!

New Post has been published on https://www.allmoddedapk.com/mind-games-pro-mod-apk/

Mind Games Pro Mod 3.3.5 Apk [Cracked Apk]

Mind Games Pro 3.3.5 Mod Apk – A collection of popular Android mind games priced at $ 2.99 and rated 4.6 out of 5.0 on Google Play offline game

Research shows that mind games can slow down the natural decline of the brain that occurs with age, or even restore some of the brain’s power to its original state! According to Virlen of Time magazine, the director of a special center for designing intellectual games says that he is very surprised that with some simple interventions, the brain can be made bigger, stronger and more alert; These interventions include physical and mental exercises! The brain is not a fixed structure, like a building or a computer, but it is always changing; 

Marius still routinely goes to mass. One day, he isn’t paying particular attention, and he goes and kneels at a seat that is reserved for a man named Mabeuf. This man comes up to him and tells him that he’s in his spot, and Marius moves. After the service, the man apologizes for having interrupted him and explains that he likes that spot because he used to watch a man come and stand behind a pillar just so he could see his son going to mass. He said that the man wasn’t able to interact with his son in any other way because his father-in-law didn’t like him and threatened to disinherit the boy. Mabeuf believes the man to be dead now, and he can’t quite remember his name, although it was something like Montpercy or Pontmarie.

Marius tells Mabeuf that that man was his father, and Mabeuf tells him that his father loved him dearly.

In which Marius's dreamy absent-mindedness and M. Mabeuf's need to overshare conveniently coincide. Marius learns that his father loved him, and responds in a mature and measured way to this new, emotionally significant information. 

For real. No snark.

He proceeds to very solitious towards his new, elderly acquaintance and then promptly lies to his grandfather.

I always forget that Marius had friends other than Les Amis (there's a reference to some lawyer friends in regards Thénardier's trial, and maybe one other reference?). Or, at least it's plausible to his grandfather than Marius has friends.