In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dounia takes it upon herself to satisfy and support the needs of her friends and family. When Dounia feels pity for a person she cares for she assumes responsibility to save the person from struggles or sadness and tries to brighten up their life. During an encounter between Raskolnikov and Svidrigaïlov, Svidrigaïlov reveals his deep thoughts about Dounia by stating, “And if once a girl’s heart is moved to pity, it’s more dangerous than anything. She is bound to ‘save him,’ to bring him to his senses, and lift him up and draw him to nobler aims, and restore him to new life and usefulness” (Dostoevsky 405). Similarly to Dounia’s personality, I resume responsibility to attempt to make everyone around me satisfied and tended to. …show more content…
Since my parents got divorced, I took it upon myself to make all the craziness calm. For years arguments, court cases, disagreements about where to go for the holidays, and ridiculous problems always seemed to arise. Rarely will my parents ever agree on something, and that is when I have to step in. Over the years instead of talking to each other, they quarrel through me. I do my best to try to make everyone happy, so there is no more fighting, and make situations where everyone wins. On top of my parents fighting, my brother who is a sophomore in high school, is having trouble listening. To say the least I was an easy child who always did what I was asked, but my brother is a polar opposite, and my parents do not know how to deal with it. Almost every day my dad is coming to me with new problems on what to do with my brother. Now, as well as trying to get my parents not to fight, my other responsibility is to guide my brother on the right path. Similarly to how Dounia tries to take care of her family, I do my best to take care of