... of steps that had to give from the doorway of her house: six hundred and thirty. He had counted when his project was no more than a vague dream "(Dostoyevsky 37). From the beginning we know that Rodia is a loner and shy away from the people around him. The author draws our attention in a ... different way than we are accustomed. From the beginning we know it will happen a crime which is perfectly well planned, we know ... eacute;rtelo "(Dostoevsky: 380).. The bars are very popular places in this novel, with this we can see how alcohol is seeking refuge all the characters of Crime and Pu...

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... event. In Tim O"Brien's novel The Things They Carried and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment the main characters find themselves in extraordinary circumstances time and time again. O"Brien and Dostoyevsky both use stylistic devices to entrap their main characters in these extraordinary circumstances. Tim (O"Brien's main character) and Raskolnikov's (Dostoyevsky's main character) struggles and strategies to survive these extraordinary circumstances are what make their ... so the reader can interpret the events easier. He makes his characters deal with real social problems so i...

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