By the end of the book Dostoevsky wants you to feel such grief and sadness for the children that it might even challenge your faith to God. ... Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to "dear, kind God"! ... He also mentions that if children should pay for their father's crimes then such a truth is not of this world and is beyond his own comprehension. ... In book six, chapter three Father Zosima says, "The peasants are rotting in drunkenness and cannot shake the habit. ...

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