Les Misérables, Book 11: The Atom Joins the Hurricane, Chapter 3: riassunto
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In Chapter 3, a hairdresser praises battlefield death while shaving an old soldier, but panics when a stone breaks his window. Gavroche throws it because he remembers the barber’s treatment of two boys, exposing the gap between the barber’s brave words and his response to danger.
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- While shaving a veteran, the hairdresser moves from discussing the riot to asking about the Emperor.
- The soldier describes the Emperor’s horse and recalls the Emperor’s wound at Ratisbon.
- The veteran lists his own many wounds, and the barber declares that he prefers a battlefield death to illness.
- The window shatters, and the frightened barber mistakes the incoming stone for a cannonball.
- The soldier identifies a pebble, while the barber sees Gavroche fleeing and complains that the boy causes trouble without reason.
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The barber treats the attack as unprovoked. His question contrasts with Gavroche’s stated concern for the boys whom the barber drives away.
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What does the soldier pick up after the shop window breaks?
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