Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 13
'Petit Gervais' - Valjean weeps after stealing from the boy; his moral conversion completes.
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From Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Valjean's entire arc from convict to saint dramatizes Hugo's central theme: the redemptive power of love and mercy over law and punishment.
Volume V, Book 7
Valjean's painful confession of his identity to Marius.
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Final scene of forgiveness and reunion at Valjean's deathbed.
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