When Quasimodo answers that he has been speaking to his friends, Frollo reminds him that stone cannot talk. Frollo arrives at the bell tower and asks him who he is speaking to. He daydreams about going to the Feast of Fools. He speaks to various objects in the cathedral such as the bells, statues, and gargoyles. Twenty years later, Quasimodo, now a young man, has gone partially deaf from ringing the bells. A male actor comes onstage and poses a question: "What makes a monster, and what makes a man?" He uses his fingers to paint a series of lines (deformities) on his face, straps on a "hunch," and covers it with his signature green cloak to become the character of Quasimodo right before the audience's eyes ("Bells of Notre Dame"). He names the baby Quasimodo and raises him in Notre Dame as his own son. Jehan dies and as Frollo is about to kill the child, he feels the glances from Notre Dame’s statues and decides against it, feeling that it is a test from God. When Frollo sees the deformed baby, he tells Jehan that he will get rid of him. Jehan explains that his wife had died three months ago from the same ailment and that his baby boy needs to be taken care of. When Frollo arrives, he finds that Jehan is dying from the pox. After becoming the archdeacon of Notre Dame, Frollo gets a letter from Jehan, pleading to meet him at another location. Jehan leaves with Florika, and is not heard from again in years. After Jehan is caught with a gypsy woman named Florika in his room, he is kicked out of Notre Dame by Father Dupin. Jehan is mischievous and deviant while Claude is pious. Orphaned brothers Jehan and Claude Frollo are taken in by the priests of Notre Dame. In 1482, the congregants at Notre Dame narrates the origins of the hunchback.
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