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...I do believe I've completely lost my ability to process. OH WELL waiting ain't making anything better, into the bright shiny incoherent future!
I love that what brings Valjean out of his internal darkness is A SMALL BOY WANDERING ONTO HIS PATH. The parallel is so neat, and it's so naturally part of the story (unlike, say, Valjean's whole MUST BE THE BARRICADES insight before), and I COMPLETELY HADN'T NOTICED IT UNTIL NOW? And I mean, the symbol of the wandering child as defenceless innocence etc. is really great and all, but also I think-- oh gad I wish I could articulate, FUTURE ME I AM SORRY-- I think there's an important evidence on Valjean's internal state in how he reacts? in both cases? Like, with Petit-Gervais, Valjean's still acting out of anger and hate, he's in a mode of sort of, of, reflexive cruelty?, even to the least threatening possible other person, even when he himself has just been shown kindness. That kindness wasn't part of him yet, it was external, it was a confusing happenstance, like weather.
But here, he's in his darkest pit ever (...for the moment) and hey, here comes this kid, and his AUTOMATIC reaction is to try and give him money, try to reach out and help. EVEN IN HIS WORST POSSIBLE STATE, even when he's really just frozen with hate and despair, Valjean's been being kind and giving so long that it's become his nature. Whatever momentary rage he's got going on-- acting in hate is just not something he's capable of anymore. And note that he DOESN'T act in hate-- he acts in concern, it's CARING that gets him up and moving again, where rage and hate had frozen him. He's not totally self aware, he's sure not emotionally clear, but he's cultivated his own self to respond to very different cues than what used to move him. Fear and anger don't WORK anymore; he's moved toward the good now, rather than away from the bad.
And OH GEEZ GAVROCHE, I freely admit NOTHING HERE IS SUBTLE but WOW it is SUPER LAYERED? Because yeah okay Light is Good, Light Enlightens, This Light is Symbolic and Gavroche is not just dousing but SHATTERING it--but he's bringing a very specific darkness with him, the darkness of the barricade, the darkness that HAS TO come before true light. "It's Ninety-Three all over", indeed. And he's bringing it to Valjean, who's been sitting all Officially Stone, lost in his own internal darkness in the middle of this real physical light.
And also, we know the gamin are presented as a symptom of what's wrong with society at this point, AND RIGHTLY SO; but they are ONLY a symptom, an innocent symptom, no one could have done less than a child to serve or deserve the cruelty of society. But here Gavroche is, still a sign, and a call to action in so many ways. He calls the lamps out of order, he says the columns of the Archives should be broken down to make barricades. Out of order, sitting lost in your own light while the world around you struggles in darkness; out of order, grand monuments to the past while the future tears its way out of the streets. This poor old country, aren't you going to do something for her? Come into the darkness, or the darkness will come to you.
Valjean's not quite there, not quite yet, but he's not hiding from the darkness now either. Break as many lamps as you like. He's already IN the darkness, he's just got to get going through. And Gavroche just told him which direction to move, too.
4.15.3 While Cosette and Toussaint Sleep
We're told Valjean's committed a kind of theft again, ouch (and wiht more predator-beast imagery!). I can't disagree; he's stealing information, he's stealing Cosette's chance to make her own decisions, he's acting NOT REAL GOOD here.
But he's still just not capable of ACTING this way.If ALL he felt about the Marius Event were hate and anger and possessiveness, he wouldn't act at ALL-- morning would find him still with that letter, and Cosette would read it like Marius planned (....DAMMIT, Marius, this is NEVER going to have been okay) and the only difference would be that Valjean would have known first. Hey! He could even lie to Cosette about having known where Marius was! She'd be all grief-stricken and maybe never reach out to the world again, she'd be his, all his, forever, and WOULDN'T THAT BE GREAT?
...No. No it would not, it would be awful, and he knows it, because he DOES love Cosette, however awkward he may be at it, and THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM ACT anymore. And so Valjean's off to the barricades, deeper into the shadow.
