Les Miserables – A Little Fall Of Rain

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  General Comment:I have read this novel several times and there is some confusion on this thread.
  
  Marius doesn't hate Eponine. He doesn't love Eponine. He has no opinion. She's just another living being in the world to him. Marius is going through a sort of transformation after his problems with his grandfather. He is in limbo, unsure what to do next, until one day he sees Cosette. From that point onward he is obsessed with Cosette. So while Eponine is in his life (she lives next door to him) Marius looks through her.
  
  Eponine loves Marius. But she is aware that he would never ever have any interest in someone like her. She is poor, and unattractive due to being malnourished. So Eponine's goal in life is to bring Cosette and Marius together. Marius asks Eponine to help him find Cosette and Eponine arranges everything, and goes so far as to prevent her father's gang from attacking Val Jean and Cosette's house. She does this because she wants to make Marius happy. Because she loves him.
  
  That's what this song is about. Eponine is saying to Marius "I don't care if I'm dying, if I can lay my head on your lap and take comfort from you I will be happier than I've ever been".
  
  And for the person who said Eponine always lived a sad life, that's untrue. Eponine was a very happy child and she had a "good life" until the Thenardier's lost their inn when she was around 10 years old.
  
  Here's the link to the chapter in the novel when Eponine dies.
  
  classicreader.com/book/268/293/
  
  "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care for me better than any surgeon. Sit down near me on this stone."
  
  He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at him, she said:--
  
  "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer suffer."
  
  She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an effort, and looked at Marius.
  
  "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered that garden; it was stupid, because it was I who showed you that house; and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--"
  
  She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:--
  
  "You thought me ugly, didn't you?"....

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  General Comment:Eponine has been in love with Marius for a long time, but he never loved her. His heart is for Cosette, and Eponine knows it. She's happy finally because she is in his arms. The rain does not nescisarily exsist, but represents all that has been wrong in her life liek her abusive father, living on the streets and not being able to have Marius.
  This song doesn't mean that Marius loves her, or notices that she is the only reason he's happy. He's only her friend, and she is dying, he obviously wouldn't leave her.
  
  retart60 - while I encourage you to read the book, you may be disappointed. Marius actually hates Eponine, mistakes her for a man, and she tries to kill him. The musical is much happier than the book, and that really is saying something.

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  General Comment:i really like this song. it is really sad, as you could tell, cuz mostly everyone that commented said so.

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  General Comment:I think this song is lovely. Eponine is happy, she is dying, but its in Marius's arms. This song makes me cry every time.

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  General Comment:My mom had me listen to the entire soundtrack before we went to see the play. I feel so much for Eponine because I have gone through and continue to go through the pain she felt because she had to watch the man she would do anything for fall in love with another woman. At least she didn't have to see that same woman break the man's heart. It's even worse because (depending on the guy) they go into this deep depression.
  
  I cried endlessly when I first heard this song. In the play, I cried even more because I was seeing it. In the play, she kisses him (him kissing her back) before she dies, then she dies in his arms. This play made me cry sooo many times! I sware I used a thousand kleenexes. I have yet to read the book, but I plan on it VERY soon.

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  General Comment:god...this song brings me to tears. marius finally realizes that eponine has done all this for him, and he sees that eponine is responsible for his happiness. he won't leave her side now...and if he could save her life by telling her that he loved her, then he would. because she's done all this for him. i agree w/ PRtwilight85, and i love how he kisses her as she dies. this part of the book brings me to tears too.

  Flag Pegasus1288on June 29, 2003   Link

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  General Comment:its really sweet. i like how he finishes the last sentence for her when she dies.

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  General Comment:When I heard this song, it brought me to tears. If there was any way to save her life, I'm sure that Marius would have.

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  General Comment:You know what makes this so sad? This is the only time in Eponine's life she's happy, and she's DYING.

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