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Lucas Leslie
8/5/2015 08:24:52 am
Now i know why the book is called Crime and Punishment, mainly because the book is filled with it! I have noticed the author does a great job of describing these events in detail. It's Chapter 7 part 1 and Raskolnikov broke into the pawnbroker's and while she wasn't looking she hit her across the head with the axe and killed her. After he killed her he pick pocketed her and then searched the house! Next thing you know he murdered Lizaveta as well! this man is very evil.
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Jamie Fortenbacher
8/10/2015 05:56:40 am
I could not have agreed more! The detail Dostoyevsky includes made me feel like I was there, which was a little scary, but made the scene that much more intense. For me, perhaps the most suspenseful part was when Koch and the other guy showed up. I kept thinking they would simply knock down the door and see Raskolnikov standing over the dead bodies.
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Mrs. Buboltz
8/10/2015 09:20:55 am
Your observations about Raskolnikov's state of shock are insightful, Jamie. We are absolutely supposed to see him as a complex character, not entirely evil even though he commits an evil crime. Seeing his distress makes him more human, don't you think?
Lucas Leslie
8/5/2015 08:39:03 am
This man is mad. After the murder's he fell right into deep sleep and when he awakened he was terrified. He jumps up freaks out and starts hiding all of his looted stuff. He literally took all of his clothes off and examined them three times. This man has gone mad. "Shaking and shivering, he took off all his clothes and examined them all over once more" (Dostoyevsky 85). He is freaking out desperately not wanting to get caught doing everything in his power to make it look like he's clean.
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Lucas Leslie
8/5/2015 09:02:51 am
Zossimov starts to notice that Raskolnikov shows huge interest in the murder discussion. Then the very next chapter both Zossimov and Razumihkin both start to notice something isn't right when Raskolnikov starts to be immensely interested in the murder investigation. And after he had an outburst over Luzhin mentioning his mother in the conversation. "Why don't you leave me alone once and for all, you bloody tormentors!" (Dostoyevsky 148). He ordered all of them to leave the area. So they did. Raskolnikov is a very crazy man.
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Mrs. Buboltz
8/9/2015 05:05:23 am
Lucas, it looks like you are the only one reading this book, unless there are others who have just not posted yet.
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Lucas Leslie
8/5/2015 09:17:05 am
At the very end of part 2 when Raskolnikov was on his way to the police station he noticed and accident and immediately noticed the accident was Marmeladov so he took action and brought him home. The fact that he actually did a kind deed really surprised me because this man evil and i hate just about everything about him. "I know him!' As he pushed all the way forward. 'It's the clerk, the retired titular Councillor , Marmeladov!" (Dostoyevsky 170). He notices that he knew who the man was and he freaked out and started yelling he will pay for someone to help him out.
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Jamie Fortenbacher
8/10/2015 02:20:36 am
As I had started reading Crime and Punishment I could not help but wonder why Raskolnikov was listening Marmeladov tell his drunken story. I couldn't figure out if the story would have some sort of significant purpose, or if it was simply to gain some insight on what life was like for some. None the less, I found several of the alterations in Marmeladov's tale to be quite intriguing, including "he is wax... wax before the face of the lord; even as wax melteth!" (pg 15) . For some reason this struck me as so magnificent, a person who depicts wax, hard until the presence of heat. I have always loved the different ways authors can depict characters, no matter their importance. After a tiny bit in I could tell I was going to enjoy this book, and Dostoyevsky did not let me down.
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Jamie Fortenbacher
8/10/2015 09:32:16 am
As I had progressed through the book I was glad to have seen that Marmeladov's life was not simply a passing by. I began to see Sonia as not just a person, but a symbol for many different things. She was the sacrifice that many make to save their loved ones when she gave up her body for money to feed her family. She represents the true hardships of those in poverty and the positions people are put into just to survive another day. She also is a symbol for the positive way in which religion can help some. In part four, Sonia reads the story of Lazarus aloud to Raskolnikov. He describes her reading as her "unveil[ing] all that was her own...her secret treasure" (pg. 258). Religion was what helped Sonia deal with the problems she endured, economically and emotionally. It allowed her to grieve for Lizaveta and ease some of the emotional pain.
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Jamie Fortenbacher
8/10/2015 11:34:43 am
I was very glad to see that Raskolnikov had finally confessed, even if it was in the last sentence. I stand by my stating the importance of Sonia, without her Raskolnikov may never have confessed. I was sad to see Svidrigaïlov had killed himself, no one should have to feel like they must surcome to that. I doubt how much Raskolnikov has changed, even with everything he went through. In the epilogue he still thinks of himself as above others, stating "why does my action strike [others] as so horrible," (pg. 425). He believes what he did was not that bad, that he was so above the law why should others look down on him. Raskolnikov was still some what of a madman, and I hope that prison will show him some new ways and shape him to be a better person, especially mentally.
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