Gavroche didn't exactly have the luck to be born into a warm and loving family, because "his father never gave him a thought and his mother disliked him" 3. His goodness mostly shows up as generosity. Passing a shivering girl on the street for example, Gavroche "unwound the thick wool from around his neck and draped it over her skinny shoulders, and the muffler again became a shawl" 4. Remember, this is a boy who's probably never been entirely warm in his life—and here he is giving away a prime piece of clothing.
On top of that, Gavroche has absolutely no fear of danger. He commits fully to the revolutionaries' cause, even though he's just a kid.
At the instigation of the others, Gavroche, carelessly courageous, climbs a rickety pipe to the roof and carries his father another, longer rope. I think he was your son. Gavroche provides us with an excellent example of Hugo's technique in character development. Hugo introduces him to us first simply as a member of a species, the Paris gamin, and gives us to understand that he possesses the courage, impertinence, and ingenuity of his kind, but he says little about Gavroche as an individual.
He remains for us only the silhouette of a boy with his hands in his pockets who passes us in the street whistling. In Part Four, however, Hugo begins to fill in this outline with precise details of speech and behavior. Gavroche wears a woman's shawl and gives it away on a cold day; he steals soap and buys bread for little boys; he helps criminals escape but steals from them to help poor old men; and he lives in an elephant. He becomes a contradictory, colorful, lively personality, totally unlike anyone but himself.
But this realistic character study also carries social and spiritual overtones. The picture of Gavroche aiding his little brothers and his father, quite unaware of their relationship to him, underlines a social tragedy — the disintegration of the family under the pressures of poverty.
And his comment on his two little lost wards — "All the same, If I had children, I would take better care of them that that" — is a masterpiece of dramatic and social irony. This waif of the streets, to whom society has never given any material help or moral training, has a far deeper compassion for childhood and a far sharper sense of his moral responsibility toward the unprotected than an average adult French citizen like the barber.
Gavroche is also, however, a spiritual symbol. Without comment and without sentimentality, Hugo through him unfolds to us the natural simple Christianity of the gospels. With cheerful patience, Gavroche makes fun of his own troubles, but he is keenly sensitive to the sufferings of others. Hungry, he feeds M. Enjolras : Have faith!
If you know what their movements are, we'll spoil their game. There are ways that a people can fight. We shall overcome their power! Javert : I have overheard their plans, there will be no attack tonight. They intend to starve you out, before they start a proper fight. Concentrate their force, hit us when it's light.
Gavroche : Liar! Good evening, dear inspector! Lovely evening, my dear! I know this man, my friends, his name's Inspector Javert! So don't believe a word he says, because none of it's true.
They are last seen at the Luxembourg Gardens retrieving and eating discarded bread from a fountain. What happens to the two after is unknown. During the student uprising of June 5th, , Gavroche joins the revolutionaries at the barricade. When Javert arrives to deliver information, he bravely reveals that Javert is actually a spy. Later, after an exchange of gunfire with the National Guards, Gavroche overhears Enjolras remark that they are running out of cartridges.
He decides to help by going through an opening in the barricade and collecting the cartridges from the dead National Guardsmen. In the process of collecting the cartridges and singing a song, he is fatally shot by the National Guard. In the musical and book, Gavroche's personality is shown to be similar to his in the movie. He has an air of childish arrogance and cockiness, stating once in the musical " It's me who runs this town ". He is very self-confident.
Despite his saucy exterior, he can often be sensitive and caring towards others, and is also affiliated with Les Amis. It is also made clear that Gavroche is in fact quite clever and street-smart, as he has survived many years by himself on the streets of Paris.
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