![]() God.” …today, I want to underline the centrality of God in the biblical story. The leading figure appears in the very first verse: “In the beginning. The Bible takes a Dickensian approach to its protagonist. As it turns out, he plays a pivotal but relatively small role in the story of Les Misérables, in which Valjean is the main character. If you were not familiar with Hugo’s classic story, you might think while reading the first chapters that the Bishop of Digne is the main character. ![]() In Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean does not show up until around page 50 (out of 1200). ![]() Yet other stories wait for some time before the protagonist appears. In Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, for example, we are immediately introduced to Pip, the central figure of the novel, and we learn why he has such an odd name. Sometimes great stories introduce the protagonist in the very first paragraph. ![]()
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