In Victor Hugo's Les Miserables Jean Valjean, a man convicted of stealing a piece of bread to feed his sister’s starving child, has served nineteen years in prison for the crime. NINETEEN YEARS! Now he is paroled, but society scorns him, making it impossible to earn a living. With no place else to go, he is taken in by a kindly old priest who feeds him and gives him a place to stay the night. But Jean Valjean is such a desperate man that he steals the priest’s silver chalices, and runs away into the night. But Jean Valjean is [READ MORE]