Les Miserables Sacrifice

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Self-sacrifice is very hard to accomplish because you don’t have to help someone and your life would be much easier without helping other people. If Self-sacrifice is often a difficult act to accomplish. If you were given the chance to sacrifice yourself for others, would you? Jean Valjean from the film, Les Miserables was able to put many others in front of himself. Jean Valjean showed self-sacrifice and put others ahead of himself by revealing his true identity to save a stranger, adopting Cosette, and getting Marius a doctor by sacrificing himself to the police.
Jean Valjean shows the act of self-sacrifice by turning himself in to save the stranger. After Valjean helps the man, he will get caught which risks his freedom because

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