Dreaming of a better future

The hope in the unseen is story of a young man’s journey from bad beginnings to what could seem like a brighter future. That is also the journey of those in the chorus hopes to find. In the song Do you hear the people sing they sing of their anger and long to be free of their life of begging. Cedric also is from a life of the poor but his hope isn’t in a revolution it’s in a good education.

What we also see are the people around him and how his choice affect them. His mother is one of these people who are affected. She has been a single mother most of her life. Having two daughters before Cedric she knows what she must do to take care of him.

A different mother who also goes to great lengths to save her child is Fantine of Les miserable.  She sells everything she possesses from her locket to her own body as a prostitute. While Cedric’s mother doesn’t have to do that to get money that same compassion to her son is there.  She becomes very depressed after her son leaves her losing control of her spending and taking time off of work.  While when Fantine finds out that she has lost her job at the factory, she sings of her lost hope in I dreamed a dream were her hope of finding the man she had loved would come back to her. Cedric’s mother hasn’t died yet for her child but her work is hard.

The Fathers of these two stories are very different from the mothers. While Jean Valjean who is the fatherly character to Cosette, is her strong father threw and threw. Cedric’s dad is also a criminal like Jean Valjean but it is how he takes his parole that if different. While they bothb run away from their parole officer you find that Jean Val Jean takes it in him to turn his life around because of God and redemption. Along the way taking in Cosette and caring for her like a father. Cedric’s Dad on the other hand does none of this for himself or even his own son.  He doesn’t try to change his ways of stopping the drug use and that is the difference, that unwillingness to change in Cedric’s dad.  

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