Cosette as a child never had a father since he left her mother after she was born. Her mother having no money had to leave her with a family which she found along the road while going into the city to look for a job, in order to keep her daughter fed and dressed. She found this family that had two daughters and whose father was a former soldier and now owned an inn. The mother told her Cosette could stay if and the father said it would cost her monthly. After some days of having the child there they would treat her as the servant, sold her clothe and dressed her in rags, and made her eat with the dogs, all this her mother never got a hold of and kept sending the money till the day of her death. “Her clothe being gone they dressed in the cast-off garments…that is in rags. They fed her on odds and ends, a little better than the dog, and a little worst than the cat. The dog and the cat where her messmates” (Hugo 46) Cosette had no friends but the dog and the cat, and had no cloth but used the rags of the two other daughters.
A song that relates to this motherless child is a song called "I want a mom" by Cyndi Lauper.
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