Jean Valjean was created to portray the Theme: Degradation of man by Poverty. It all starts when he steals a loaf of bread; he is then caught and thrown into jail for twenty years. The Bishop Myriel offers Jean Valjean a room to sleep at night, at that night he wakes up and steal the bishop's silverware and silver plates, and runs off into the night. He is stopped by a police and discovers the silverware in his knapsack and takes him back to Myriel’s house. To everyone’s surprise, Myriel claims that he gave the silverware to Valjean and even chides Valjean for having forgotten to take the silver candlesticks as well. Valjean is immediately released. Myriel gives Valjean the candlesticks and tells him that in taking the candlesticks, he has made a promise to become an honest man. Still bitter and not understanding what the bishop is talking about, that afternoon he steals a forty-sous piece from a chimney sweep, Petit Gervais. He accidentally put his foot on it and drove the boy away since he annoyed him with his pleas. After doing that, he is shocked at what he had done, he tries to find the boy, but he was never found. This is a turning point in his life; Valjean realises that he has fallen low enough to rob a defenseless child and that now, he has to become either good or bad.
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