AP Literature Summer Session

As of today I have finished book 1 and I must say the last half of the last chapter was most probably the most boring and slow paced piece of writing ever. But anyways...this topic is about characters. Many people would say that their favorites were Dmitry, Ivan, or Alyosha...some would even go to the extent of saying that Fyodor was their favorite. But me, I truly believe that the coolest character and the one I like the best is by far...Gregory!

Most people wouldn't remember a character like Gregory, but we should and for many reasons. Not only did Gregory care for Fyodor's kids when he was too drunk to realize he was a human, but Gregory showed many hidden signs in the first book that show how awesome he is. For starters, Gregory is obviously the only guy with an all-American name which means he might have lineage that will lead to great American heroes, like Bill Gates, George Washington, and Kool-Aid Man. Gregory also was the only one that cared to put a tombstone on the ''Crazy Lady" Sofia's grave. I mean...come on! Only cool guys would remember to put tombstones on graves, which obviously means that Gregory is affiliated with some secret society to better the human relationships on Earth. He also is probably the only person who would take a slap and bow to the person inflicting the slap in admiration. Gee...what a good guy. From reading just the first book I have realized that Gregory might not be from Russia, but from another world, a world inhabited with people that have pronounceable names (and only one name may I say...I think Dmitri and Alyosha were referenced with two different names and we were supposed to know that) a world that cares about babies when they may die and a world that remembers to put tombstones above people's graves.

Now that the awesome character is out of the way, I must get on to my least favorite character. My least favorite character is the Elder Zosima for one main reason:

I think he is really lazy and just doesn't want to get over being sick so he makes other people around him feel bad. And when it says that he can't handle meetings with poor and needy people, it obviously means that he would rather sit around his little cell and play Go-Fish with himself.

So yeah, my favorite character is Gregory because he is very caring and knows when to be grateful after taking a beating. And my least favorite character is Zosima because I think he is faking his illness to sit around his cell and have fun all day instead of doing boring stuff like curing people's sicknesses and telling them to praise god.

This book seems interesting so far, I would like to see how the plot develops, and as long as Gregory is in the whole book I will be satisfied.