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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky			Title:  Crime and Punishment				Date: 1866		Genre: Psychological drama
Author bio w/ relevance to story:
Mackenzie (also see "Point of View")
Character List & Description:			Plot Summary:					Important imagery, detail
Patsy (also put Foils down in "other," will you?)			The story begins with Rodion Raskolnikov, a sickly dressed young man, who lives in the small town of St. Petersburg.  Rodya (the nickname of Raskolnikov) is a student in the town, and he is contemplating commiting a crime when he overhears a citizen talking about how life would be better if the old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanova, were just dead...later Rodya decides to kill her and ends up killing her sister too; he is now a criminal.  Throughout the entire book all the way up until he confesses, he feels an immense amount of guilt to the point where it makes him physically sick.  But, things get worse when his mother and sister come to visit him; he is rude to them even though he truly loves and misses them.  To top everything else off, his sister Dunya, brings her fiancee with her to meet Rodya.  Little does Dunya know that Rodya already knows and despises her soon to be husband, Luzhin.  After a dinner with the family, everyody realizes how big of a jerk Luzhin is and Dunya calls off the wedding as Luzhin angrily storms out of the room.  Now that her wedding is called off, sparks arise with Dunya and Razhumikin (although her former employer, Svidrigailov, tries to get her to marry him by bribary).  Soon Rodya finds himself lusting after the daughter of his late friend.  She is a woman by the name of Sonya (she has a caring heart and loves Rodya).  With the drama thoughout the entire book, Rodya is getting closer and closer to cracking as he is constanly being investigated.  At the end of the novel, Rodya confesses to the murder and his love for Sonya.  For the crime, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia, and out of love, Sonya accompanies him and visits him all the time.  Soon into his sentence he questions if he did the right thing confessing, and struggles with the thought of his life (he is even spiteful to Sonya).  Finally after a while of being in prison, Sonya gets him to realize he did the right thing by confessing to the crime and the book ends with him realizing and expressing his love for Sonya and with remorse for his crime.					Anna Marie
								Point of view:
								Mackenzie (Also see Author Bio above)
			Setting, mood, atmosphere
			Jordan
								Style, diction, syntax:
								James