As the June Rebellion collapses, the reader stays at the barricade with Enjolras, witnessing his brutal death after he is shot multiple times. In his final moments, Enjolras confesses that loving the reader made him fear death—not for himself, but for what he would leave unfinished. He dies in the reader’s arms as the barricade falls, becoming the martyr the Republic demands. Marius survives the uprising only to lose Cosette soon after, the future he believed he had fought for taken from him ju