Only the Epilogue left. I don't really know how I feel about the whole thing up till now. Dmitry is not guilty. I don't think he is anyways. That always bothers me whether it's in a book, a movie, or on the news. I imagine if that was me and I was innocent, but the system failed me and put me in jail. I hate that it happens. But okay back to Skotoprigonyevsk. By the way, it was weird seeing the narrator use the towns name again.
Someone in class asked about who the narrator is. I've never thought about it. I guess it never occurred to me that it would be someone that we were introduced to in the novel. I guess it could be Alyosha though I don't think so. Maybe Kolya when he grows up. Personally if I had to guess I would say Rakitin. He seems to know everything anyways and goes and talks to everyone getting the inside scoop. He already fancies himself a writer in the story. Although he is the type of person I think that if he was going to write something he would write himself in a more favorable light. I just prefer to not think one of the characters is narrating.
Ivan is so changed from when we first met him in the story. Well most of the characters are, but him in particular. He seemed to be more of a reserved person, high in his ideals, and very set in his ways. Now he has completely lost it and is busting up in court. If you would have thought anyone would keep his senses it would be Ivan. I guess it was Dostoyevsky's way of a curveball.
Oh and I loved how said Fyodor's name in this book : Retired titular councillor, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov. Seems very official for someone who made his life of being a clown.
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I felt like I would have more of a definite opinion of the book when we reached the end, and I don't. I think after I read the epilogue I will but right now I don't have a clear feeling about this novel. I have been thinking about who the narrator could be. I suspect it could by Kolya as an adult. I hadn't thought of Rakitin but that could also be a possibility. I am almost more curious to find out who the narrator is that to find out about the main characters in the epilogue.
I don't want to over-simplify the issue too much but I think that the narrator is really just a literary device. I don't think he's supposed to be one of the actual characters.
@David Daniilovich Carlson
Yeah that's what I think. I just commented on it, because someone brought up the idea in class.
I agree, I don’t necessarily think the narrator will be an actual character we know and have read about. I still have yet to read the epilogue and I am planning on getting started after these posts mostly because I just want a solid ending. I feel like so many loose ends are around and not all of them will be tied up, which would be annoying but totally in Dostoyevsky’s style.
I am torn about the whole narrator situation. Throughout the reading I have thought about it just being a device to tell the readers more about the scenes and characters, but I have thought about someone being the narrator that we have already met. It is stated that Alyosha is Dostoyevsky's hero, so I always just placed Dostoyevsky as the narrator. He used places from his own life to write the novel, so why wouldn't he write it from his own perspective. I don't think a character is the narrator, unless you consider Dostoyevsky a character in his own novel; as the narrator. Those are just my thoughts about it.
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