Jean Valjean had came from a really poor family. He lost his mom and dad at a early age his mom died from milk fever his father died because a tree fell on top of him. The Poacher lives in a forest and the smuggler lives in an ocean. The irrepable abandoment of asentient being.
This chapter is connected to life today because we know their are good and bad polices and now in days we focus on that if either their are good or bad.