So I've been reading Crime and Punishment and it is very interesting because Raskolinkov kept telling himself how crazy his plan to kill the lady is, and that he's not really going to do it. He also is helping people and being a good citizen while this whole plan is going on. But then he actually goes and kills the lady, and the reader is in disbelief because he seems like such a good person. So it makes the reader ask the question, why did he actually kill the lady? Now one of the thing he told himself is that he could kill the lady and not have it bother his conscience. It could be that he did it, to try to prove to himself that he would just kill the lady and forget about it. Another reason is that he wanted the money to help him and his family. But how did he justify killing the lady to seem to himself as if it was not even a sin? Later in the book his beliefs are reveled about crime. He had written an article separating people into two groups, the ordinary and the extraordinary, stating that for the extraordinary, the end result justified the means of accomplishing it.

I guess he must have considered himself extraordinary. His reasons for killing her I guess was to help his family and he justified killing her to help his family with all the wrong things she had done. So far though I have not come to a conclusion because I still have to finnish the book, but maybe I'll write aother blog to continue my thoughts after I finnish the book.