End of Part 4

         Everyone knows or will know someone who has suffered more than the average person but still keeps going without letting his or her suffering get in the way. In Crime and Punishment, Sonya is that person. Even though she had suffered day in and day out she never lets that get to her. It’s interesting how Raskolnikov can manage to tell her everything he would not tell anyone else. There is something about her that makes her so easy to speak to. Raskolnikov constantly compares her to his sister Dunya by saying that Sonya had a more acceptable reason for giving up her freedom while Dunya solely gave up her freedom to benefit herself not really her family. Any time Raskolnikov decides to clear his conscious he plans to go tell Sonya. Sonya manages to calm Raskolnikov down to the point where his delirum is controllable.

            When Raskolnikov and Porfiry are speaking at the police station I automatically knew Porfiry had some knowledge to what Raskolnikov had done. If Profiry did not know, then he would not have been pacing around the room in a frantic. The way Porfiry led the discussion was different that I would have thought it would have started off. It really surprised me that Raksolnikov had gotten away with yelling at Porfiry and acting like a madman at the police station. The last few chapters of Part 4 were not what I was expecting.

            In Raskolnikov’s reality, he tends to run away from his problems than just facing them. He never truly acts with reason and blames others. The one moment where I thought Raskolnikov had some control over himself was when he spoke to Svidrigailov and stood up for his Dunya and when he lashed out against Luzhin. Besides those two incedents, I really believe Raskolnikov is a coward. He needs to confess to someone before he leaves town or his guilt will finally get the better of him and he will end up going completely mad or he will end up killing himself.