Read it because its here.

I was glad to get back to the Karamazovs and there happenings in the exciting town of Skotoprigonyevsk although I confess that I was wondering if we were going to get another visit from Kolya or was his purpose simply to wrap up the other little story lines from earlier on in the book? As for the name of the town (it took me ten or so tries before I could memorize it just for it not to be on the quiz) that was a shock for him just to throw it out like that with a confession that he withheld it pretty much on purpose the whole time. I knew it was going to happen sometime, because Isham said it would be coming up, but it was almost, "so oh yeah the town is Skotoprigonyevsk. tried to hide it from ya, but there ya go and yes I know it's a mouth full!" I tried to look up its meaning and got something about cattle or it's from the word skotoprigony, meaning stockyard.

Lise... She's just gone. Either that or maybe bipolar? The ups and down are just so extreme it would seem and the indecisiveness is also an indicator. I wouldn't be surprised as Dostoyevsky seems to have characters that are affected with mental illness. It also goes along with the "affect" everyone is trying to say Dmitry was under. I gotta hand it to Alysoha though I can see why he is the hero, though write now an almost unspoken one. He is loyal. He stands by his brother and is the one saying, "Actually no Dmitry didn't kill our father and I truly believe that. I will not believe you saying otherwise." It's like nowadays when just to get a case over with someone would plead to maybe a lesser charge so they won't go to court and risk something bad happening. I know, in Dmitry's case, I couldn't say I did it either. Alyosha is saving him. With his mind, he needs at least someone to believe him or otherwise he would start to convince himself that maybe everyone else was right.

Smerdyakov... Never liked him. He's like the butler you suspect from the beginning of the play. He wasn't quite right and not because he was epileptic either. I think I suspected him because of the cats. I know someone said in class about they looked up about psychopaths and it said something about torturing animals, wetting the bed, and something else. I don't know about that, but I know people like that start out with the most helpless and work their way up. They start with animals, go on the children and then the elderly and then they are confident to just go at it. The animals, manipulating Ilyusha, the murder of Fyodor. It all fits. This put is turning out to be the ultimate whodunit!

Oh and personally I think Smerdyakov is trying to get Ivan to feel the blame, because Smerdyakov used to like him, but Ivan never really considered him to be really intellectual enough. He is simply playing on the emotions of a son. Smerdyakov has always had too much power.

(On a semi funny note: I went home after class thursday so I am sitting at home writing this and I like to listen to music while I am working and what I was listening to finished, so my mother took it upon herself to put in more music. All of a sudden, Love train by the O' Jays comes on. I thought that is an hilarious soundtrack for the Karamazovs.)