Sunday, April 7, 2013

Crime and Punishment Pt 2 Ch.1-7

CHAPTER 1:

  • Now he is trying to hide all that he has collected and is becoming kind of paranoid over the fact that he has committed the murder. He has become to question himself and all his actions
  • Nastasya and the porter are standing outside the door and he won't open because he is so scared of anything and anyone after what he has done
  • Through the murders he committed and the after day he has been in a sleeping frenzy seemed to be sick with a fever.
  • Raskolnikov was called to appear in front of the police but he does not know why
  • The report for him to go to the police station was for an I O U of money to his landlady
  • After the discussion in the room with the captain and the woman that was there about a dishonoured company Raskolnikov begins to give the officers excuses to the I O U
  • The head clerk held sympathy for Rask. and decided to right his declaration to pay at a later date and when he has the means to.
  • He overheard the clerks talking and realized that they thought the killers were the two men that lost caught Raskolnikov. 
  • Do to some answers he gave the clerk he is frightened and hurries home to hide before a search that he suspects.
CHAPTER 2:

  • Raskolnikov has a feeling that the clerks are after him and therefore feels the necessity to hide all of the items he took from the old woman's house 
  • He has hidden all the items he took under a stone near an old construction
  • Raskolnikov has gone to visit Razumihin without really thinking about it but Razumihin gives Rask. a job helping him with translation jobs
  • Raskolnikov is completely mad because he took the translations papers offered to him and then walked back soon after and returned it. He really can not think logically (seems quite delusional)
  • Raskolnikov described a scene where he said to see Ilya Petrovitch beating his landlady but when he asked Natasya about the incident she said that was not true and that it was the blood in his ears calling to him. (a dream?)
CHAPTER 3:
  • He was slipping in and out of conscious but he did not know for how long it actually lasted
  • Raskolnikov has been out for four days but said that his condition was not serious. Also there is a man  who has come to give him the 35 roubles his mother sent him
  • Razumihin has found out all about Raskolnikov from the police station and all that know him
  • Rasks is afraid that he spoke to much in his delusion about the items he hid and the incident
  • Raskolnikov does not really know what to do with himself and is afraid to be discovered but when trying to escape he drank and fell asleep six hours.
  • His friend and Natasya have gotten him a new hat shoes and some new clothes but he want none of it and still forgets events or has a problem distinguishing between dreams and reality
CHAPTER 4:
  • Zossimov seems to be the doctor that is watching after Raskolnikov and is a very well thought of man. Meaning he is clean shaven and has the money seems superior
  • Razumihin is having a house warming party and is talking with Zossimov about the guests. Zametov comes into being part of the conversation and what he has in common with Zossimov.
  • Nikolay a painter found the jewelry and although they have accuse the other two men of the murder now Nikolay is suspicious too!
  • Dushkin and Dimitri are also accused and a big plot is made as to how they killed the pawnbroker woman and her sister
  • The jewelry found was some earrings that Raskolnikov seemed to have dropped when he was hiding behind the door before his escape.
CHAPTER 5:
  • Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin has now been introduced into the story as his first scene he went to visit Raskolnikov 
  • Mr.Luzhin tells Raskolnikov that his mother and sister will arrive soon and that he has taken them a space in a building nearby. (a cheap building that Raskolnikov does not like)
  •  Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov- The man from Marmeladov's story is the friend of Mr.Luzhin
  • After the arguing of the different outlooks on life the mean go back to the topic of the murder right before Mr.Luzhin steps out
  • Mr.Luzhin sticks back a little to discuss on the topics with the gentlemen as to leave an impression of his knowledge.
  • Raskolnikov gets into and argument about the fiance situation and his mother with Mr.Luzhin
  • Raskolnikov tells all the people in the room to leave him and so they do because he is very irritable
  •  Also Zossimov and Razumihin realize that the only topics Raskolnikov will respond to is that of the murder case
CHAPTER 6:
  • Raskolnikov wants to make some sort of business clear so he gets up off bed and starts walking to the Hay market once again
  • Street performers distract him~ Passes by the location of the old couple where  Lizaveta was last speaking to the people
  • Zametov comes up to Raskolnikov at the place where he is drinking his tea and reading the paper and Raskolnikov is acting strange and saying weird things to Zametov
  • They begin to talk about the counterfeiters from Moscow which led back to the topic of the murder and Raskolnikov actually confessed to having committed the murder to Zametov but he didn't see to believe him or want to believe him and Raskolnikov decided to leave
  • He sees a woman tries to commit suicide but decides it's not worth it and decided to go to the police station.
  • He stopped by the murder house before going and seeing it was under construction
  • HE finally decides that he will go to the police station and that it all be over soon.
CHAPTER 7:
  • When he approached a commotion on his way to the police station he realized that the man laying on the ground that had been ran over was Marmeladov the man he had met in the tavern before.
  • Katerina the wife hates her life with Marmeladov and the situation that he has them living under
  • Raskolnikov has committed to take care and pay for help to come to Marmeladov and he leads the men to his house where Katerina is fully surprised
  • Katerina sent her oldest daughter of 10 Polenka to get Sonia and made her run off fast while going crazy because of the crazy crowds in the house
  • A priest and a doctor are now at the sight but the doctor says there is no use and that the man will die no matter what within 5 to 10 minutes
  • Marmeladov died in the hands of Sonia his daughter and Raskolnikov gave 20 rubbles to Katerina and said that her husband was his friend and it was as friends he gave her the money
  • He feels like he needs to keep living to help the family and says he must forget of the old woman
  • His mother and his sister were now sitting waiting for him in the room

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