WillieD
10-30-2007, 01:06 PM
Excellent book. Just finished reading it. One thing I found interesting was the theme about abandonment/death of the innocents by their parents. Arkadiy's room is described as being like a coffin. There is a brief episode where a woman abandons her baby and Arkadiy finds a home for it but then it dies. The baby is described lying in a coffin.
Perhaps you could say that Dostoevskiy was pointing out that, as he notes in proloque, that youth are the next generation and that poor parenting was destroying Russia.
Perhaps you could say that Dostoevskiy was pointing out that, as he notes in proloque, that youth are the next generation and that poor parenting was destroying Russia.