7. Les Mis Part B

What I didn't like: And I didn't like it even a little bit, was the overload of information about the battles and the battle scenes and French background stuff. I thought that it was completely unnecessary and wasted my time. He could have given me a sufficient background in less than a quarter of the words. The second thing was the use of French words in the ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the text. In reality I have no idea if Les Mis was written in French or English but it was frustrating the amount words that he insisted to put in there that I had no chance of understanding.
What I loved/ am going to try and implementing in my life: Jon val Jon pushed the limits of human selflessness. He gave of himself so entirely that it seemed that a human being couldn't do such a thing, but I know that it really is possible. And I want to do more things that are truly charitable and giving of myself.  The part where he decides to turn himself in so that an innocent man doesn't get taken to the Gallies in his place, and he has to overcome many many obstacles in order to do so particularly effected me. He was a changed man that by all measures didn't deserve any further punishment, but he simply couldn't make another innocent man go through the pain that he unjustly suffered in the same way. He realized that his life was in no way better than that of any other human being, no matter how saintly he himself was, and he couldn't not bring himself to do harm to another person.
Jon val Jon knew how to truly repent. He knew how to change, and make sure that your actions were in accordance with that change. Some would say that he made himself suffer for too long in order to make himself feel better about his past—self induced guilt—but I think that he just underwent a real change in his life, and the sacrifices made by him were because that was who he had become, and what he actually desired to do, not, to prove to himself or any others that he really was good.
I also want to make sure that I am successful monetarily so that I can be the power for good that he was in the lives of so many. I really want to be able to do that.