Most Memorable Moment Journal
Throughout my first part of the book the most
memorable moment for me was in the beginning when Peirre Gringoire was trying to get the audiences
attention so that he could start the play but was unable to due to the various
amounts of interuptions that went on that distracted all the citizens from
paying attention to Gringoire’s play. This was the most memorable moment during
my part because I found it partly amusing that only one of the audience members
stayed and payed some attention to how the prologue of the play went, and
because it helped introduce the financial situation that gringoire is in and it
helped introduce the city and the festivities that were occuring that took the
audiences attention off the play. Another reason was that this part of the book
introduced us to one of the main characters known as the hunchback who is
Quasimodo. Quasimodo was introduced when the crowd’s attention was attracted by
the fool’s Pope (very popular for a single day) who was one person that was
chosen by the crowd who was the “ugliest” out of the group that competed and
who ever one would become the fool’s Pope for the day. The idea of the fool’s
Pope was given by a man by the name of Coppenole who found the play held by
Gringoire to be boring.
