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Key Literary Elements
• Setting
• Character List
• Conflict
• Short Plot/Chapter Summary (Synopsis)
• Themes
• Mood
• Background Information - Biography
• Note on Overall Structure

Chapter Summaries with Notes
FANTINE
• Book First: An Upright Man
• Book Second: The Fall
• Book Third: In the Year 1817
• Book Fourth: Entrust is Sometimes to Abandon
• Book Fifth: The Descent
• Book Sixth: Javert
• Book Seventh: The Champmathieu Affair
• Book Eighth:Counter Stroke
COSETTE
• Book First: Waterloo
• Book Second: The Ship Orion
• Book Third: Fufillment of the Promise to the Departed
• Book Fourth: The Old Gorbeau House
• Book Fifth: A Dark Chase Needs a Silent Hound
• Book Sixth: Petit Picpus
• Book Seventh: A Parenthesis
• Book Eight: Cemeteries Take What is Given Them
MARIUS
• Book First: Paris Atomised
• Book Second: The Grand Bourgeois
• Book Third: The Grandfather and the Grandson
• Book Fourth: Friends of the ABC
• Book Fifth: The Excellence of Misfortune
• Book Sixth: The Conjunction of Two Stars
• Book Seventh: Patron Minette
• Book Eight: The Noxious Poor
SAINT DENIS
• Book First: A Few Pages of History
• Book Second: Eponine
• Book Third: The House in the Rue Plummet
• Book Fourth: Aid From Below May Be Aid From Above
• Book Fifth: The End of Which is Unlike the Beginning
• Book Sixth: Little Gavroche
• Book Seventh: Argot
• Book Eight: Enchantment and Desolation
• Book Ninth: Where are They Going
• Book Tenth: June 5th, 1832
• Book Eleventh: The Atom Fraternizes With the Hurricane
• Book Twelfth: History of Corinth From Its Foundation
• Book Thirteenth: Marius Enters the Shadow
• Book Fourteenth: The Grandeurs of Despair
• Book Fifteenth: The Rue De L'Homme Arme
JEAN VALJEAN
• Book First: War Between Four Walls
• Book Second: The Intestine of Leviathan
• Book Third: Mire but Soul
• Book Fourth: Javert Off the Track
• Book Fifth: The Grandson and the Grandfather
• Book Sixth: The White Night
• Book Seventh: The Last Drop in the Chalice
• Book Eight: The Twilight Wane
• Book Ninth: Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn

Overall Analyses
• Character Analysis
• Plot Structure Analysis
• Themes Analysis
• Point of View

Questions
• Study Questions

Comment
• Comment on the Study of Literature