SLAVIC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter Book VII : Salekhard, The Onion
3 Apr 2018
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The breath of corruption: zossima"s body is prepared for burial. Everyone thinks that something miraculous is going to happen with zossima"s death. "crisis and turning point in alyosha"s spiritual development" Father paissy is bothered by the obdorsk monk and rakitin. Ferapont appears in zossima"s cell to cast out devils. Alyosha leaves the hermitage without saying goodbye to anyone and father. A critical moment: alyosha feels conflicted about zossima"s death. Rakitin comes across alyosha between hermitage and monastery lying face down on the ground: rakitin finds out alyosha"s feelings about zossima"s death. Alyosha feels he needs to remember something really important about dmitri, but he doesn"t know what. Rakitin offers alyosha sausage and vodka (monks are forbidden) but alyosha. Rakitin convinces alyosha to come with him to grushenka"s: rakitin wants to see a "downfall of the righteous" Never takes on anything without a prospect of gain for himself. Rakitin wants to see alyosha"s fall from saint to sinner.
