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Summary

The book I began to read now is The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a story that has me askign many questions. The book stares in imidiece race as it starts at the end, I believe. The book is pretty much backwards as it starts by stating the death of Ivan Ilyich , who was very well known. He was admired by many and was a very good man. He had a very close friend who is Peter. Peter in the book is in the just as everyone is sort of talking about the death, the outcome, and what will be done in the future. As this is happening his wife was introduced, Praskovya Fedorovna who is now a widow. Through out the church service she talks to him alone as she tries to get money for the funeral. Then also thought the second section the book talked about the life of Ivan Ilyich. He was a very hardworking man who only wanted the best for his family. Like most people at that time period, he was part of the justice people in court, he was son of a civil war sergeant and his family was pretty successful. Two of his children lived a good life as they had a good future except one who was a failure, and therefor they pretended he was dead. The book in my opinion began really strong, and it is a little confusing to understand. I predict that the book is going ot be an entire case on how Ivan Ilyich died, and what caused hsi death.
What type of last name is Iylich ?

Quotation
"Gentlemen!" he said," Ivan Ilyich is dead"(Tolstoy).

Reaction
My reaction to this was" OMG , hes dead?" . I reacted really shocked because I was nto expecting the book to start off in saying that someone had already died. Then as I read this I tried to kinda figure out what was the point the author was trying to make, or how the book was going to be written. I automatically assumed that the book was going to be all about telling the story in flashback mode since it started with no background. But then I thought of how I was going to have a big role as a reader to figure out whats going on. Specially in this book how the authors writtign style is a little more complex to seem that I am use to.