The Dostoevsky's Notes From The Underground

The Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground was a really good book. I never read an author from Russia that I can think of before this class. I understood the author sometimes but other times, I did not. The discussions in class were really funny and helped me understand a lot of what the narrator was really talking about in life. We liked to laugh at how angry the narrator talked before realizing he was teaching us that we all have this anger in our hearts. My participation in class showed me I could connect to the narrator of the book more than I thought. He was angry and I did not think I had so much anger in my heart but I do. I was challenged reading this novel because I thought the author was hard to understand. He would talk about hating life than switch his opinion.

He was almost killed and sent to jail for years. Dostoevsky believed that human condition is dark and complicated. He also thought humans can never be pure. He said that in life we will always be suffering because we lack empathy. We need to stop thinking that we are better than we actually are. We need to value life. Dostoevsky helped me see we would rather be suffering in life than to be bored. We want a purpose even if it is a bad one. I never even thought of life this way. I always thought we never wanting suffering but Dostoevsky really opened my eyes to see we want to suffer. We do not want to be bored. The novel really helped me realize I need to better myself and want a good life. To get a good life I need to have empathy for others. Most of the time I do not have a lot of empathy because I would fill my life with suffering. I would rather be suffering than to have no attention. Suffering was the only way I thought I would get people’s attention. After reading the novel I know I cannot have spite in my heart because it is unhealthy. I need to find empathy to find true