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I think that everyone at one point or another can "completely word for word" relate to "On My Own" but that doesn't mean that you completely relate to Eponine. In the musical, Eponine is portrayed as a defenseless emo girl, meanwhile in the book she is completely different. She's more self-interested and just a little insane. She's vaguely aware of her love for Marius but isn't as sorry for herself and pathetic as in the musical. I think that she's a bit more like her parents in the book, which makes sense considering the way that she was raised. Alright, this little reply has turned into a full fledged rant...sorry. But I don't want you to turn into an Eppy-bopper (like most Les Mis fangirls...-_-) because there really is a lot more emotionally charged moments in the musical than Eponine.

I laugh at her death in the musical. XD Cause everyone's like 'duhhhhhh.....there's a girl dying thar D:' and like. not fighting or getting her help or anything. XD

On My Own would be a lot sadder if it wasn't so downright emo ; ;

There were a lot of times I cried in the musical, although I haven't read the book. I cried in the first 'Look Down' Scene the first time I saw it (I was in 2nd grade at the time though) but only the first time, and then I always (I've seen it twice live, and millions of times in concert video) almost cry when Fantine dies, although I've never actually reach crying. Then I almost always cry when Eponine dies, she just loved so deeply that she should change so much for Marius then die for him, it's awful. and then I always sob when Valjean dies.

In the musical, it would have to be "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," the part where Marius cries: "Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me, what your sacrifice was for" and the ghosts of the ABCs turn away and disappear back out of the lighting. Also, if the sequence from "Dog Eats Dog" to "Empty Chairs" is done well enough, you don't stop crying for the entire time.

In the book, it would have to be the paragraph in "Jean Valjean, Book First: War between Four Walls, V: What Horizon Is Visible from the Top of the Barricade," that speech that Enjolras gives particularly the section of it where he says: "'Citizens, the nineteenth centuy is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy'" to where he says: "'Whence shall arise the shout of love, if it be not from the summit of sacrifice?'" and then the section where he "broke off rather than ceased, his lips moved noiselessly, as if he were continuing to speak to himself, and they looked at him with attention, endevouring still to hear. There was no applause; but they whispered fo a long time. Speech being breath, the rustling of intellects resembles the rustling of leaves." I have never been able to read that without getting tears in my eyes.