| P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses. P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text. A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone |
From the collection of passages which follow select one that you can base your research paper upon. You may select another passage from the novel not represented here if you prefer.
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. –I shall feel it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him–he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. ”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables