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Sunday, March 22, 2015

The Brothers Karamazov (KOREAN version!) - Yoonji

Hello all, the current book I am reading is a classic novel titled 'The Brothers Karamazov', written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I read about 32 pages of the book. Anyhow, this book portrays the life and events through the lives of, of course, the brothers Karamazov, of all three unfortunate childhoods and a... (crazy) unstable father. The eldest, Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, the (spawn of satan) one and only son from his father's first marriage, lost his mother at an early age, and grew up to become an unclean (rather debauchery (I'm sorry for using this word... but he is really debauchery)) adult, and perhaps the most impure of the three. However, the second son, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, can be known for his intelligence, although he tends to be, perhaps, internal and serious, and faced the sheer reality at an early age, and I believe it is said that he expressed disgust to his father internally. Anyhow, the third and last son, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, is marked by his direction toward pureness and kindness, therefore the most favorable of all three. He could be compared with his eldest brother in the case of Alexei representing pureness while his oldest brother holding the opposite quality. The youngest decided at an early age to dedicate his life to loving and respecting others, along with living the proper life, hence avoiding dirty doings such as the acts of his own father and his eldest brother. It is also noted that in his youth, the friends at his school often teased him due to his over-reaction when they discussed things such as... (mature content, etc. etc., okay, blackout). But he is said to be loved by most everyone, and interestingly capturing his father's attention and love, at times diverting him from his specialty, 'dirty doings'. Anyway, these brothers all suffered from not only the loss of their mothers, but the harshness of growing up through an unruly environment, added to the rather amazing ignorance their father gave them. Due to the lack of care, they were separated from their original households, raised by different hands. In the case of the younger two, they were taken by their dead mother's foster mother, a wife of a general. Although the wife maltreated their mother before her marriage to their (even worse) father, she generally did a considerably... satisfactory job of raising these two unlucky souls. They came to inherit a lot of money afterwards, for the death of the wife brought another person to raise them, using all his money, leaving the money the wife gave the children untouched and ready for use in the future, opening potential jobs and such, supporting the second son later on to hold a successful career. Anyhow, the first son was not very lucky for he was just raised by the servant and his uncle, not living such a beneficial life like his younger siblings. 
I give my apologies if this seemed more like an explanation of the characters, but that is because that was the very thing the book presented in the beginning, and I am not close to being finished (ahaha). :) 

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