Development of the Theme

What Builds up the theme of Jean Valjean is when he is thrown into jail for stealing a loaf of bread for 5 years, and then he attempts to escape from jail leaving him in there for twenty years. After being released he still commits the same crime he did before being thrown into jail. Fist the Bishop Myriel offers Valjean a room to stay in the night, and then he steals the silverware, but Myriel tells him to take them, and promises Valjean to be an honest person. And Last, without understanding what Myriel promised him, he steals a coin from a boy named Petit Gervais, but then he realizes that the bad things he is doing is ruining his life. This theme is also described in the Musical of song called “Overture/At the End of the Day”. Where Jean Valjean and the other prisoners are suffering while the guards are keeping watch or torturing them. In the other song “What have I done?” is the part where he realizes the bad things he has done in the past and, he starts a new life with his new name Monseiur Madeleine.