She was also famished by love her whole life. Although after she Jean Valjean rescued her and loved her to a point she saw his father, she was always missing a maternal love. She had never experienced or known what the word love meant since she had never had that feeling before. “Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered in its earthly sense. She did not know, therefore, she did not know what name to give to what she now experienced” (Hugo 254). So it was as she had never lacked it for some time until she started to feel extremely alone due to her father’s excursions. This is when she starts to open herself to new things which then lead her into depression. Although she never lived in extreme misery and Jean Valjean had some money because of his savings when he was mayor, she never lived in very nice places. She actually lacked a real home, she had had various houses but they traveled so much they never got to settle in one. Also a home is where you can find love and comfort and she usually never had either since Valjean usually wasn’t always around because had three little houses, and lived different nights in different houses.
A song that potrays the mood of how Cosette felt about the love she felt about Marius is "All Out of Love" by Airsupply.
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