pilferingapples:sarah1281:sarah531:The saddest piecharts you will ever seeI think Marius and Cosette
pilferingapples:sarah1281:sarah531:The saddest piecharts you will ever seeI think Marius and Cosette would probably have longer than just 33 years since they’re very wealthy and unlikely to be killed by the same things that kill poor people. And every Eponine or Gavroche brings down the average the same way Gillenormand raises it. Yeah, thanks for pointing out the thing about averages. Averages for individual groups are *very* different from whole-population averages. Still it’s pretty impressive that Valjean made it to such an age, since really *most* of his life was on the NOT COMFORTABLE side of the living standards line!Not sure how to feel about Fantine working on a farm at 10. There’s a LOT of flex in what “working on a farm” means, you know? Most children of farm families are doing *some* work before then, but there’s a biiiiig spread of potential conditions from “constant but reasonable chores” to “basically the house slave”. And 10 was not at all an unusual age for children of the lower classes to start working anyway (Labor History Will Make You Upset, Vol. I: What Happens With Kids). Since Fantine SURVIVED without a Valjean to save her AND was healthy enough to be pretty she was probably not getting full-on Thenardier’d, at least. Basically what I’m saying is that while it’s unlikely Fantine was taken into the farm as another daughter she could totally have been and had a decent early teens by the standards of the day SO IF SOMEONE WANTS TO WRITE HER A LITTLE WINDOW OF REASONABLE CANON HAPPINESS THAT IS TOTALLY AN OPTION. -- source link
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