Week 4 Recap: The End of Part One and the Arrival of War
This week we read the closing chapters of Part One and the beginning chapters of Part Two—the transition from peace to war.
The end of Part One saw continued tensions between the young men going off to war and everyone else. Tolstoy presents the women as not understanding why men would do such a thing; the old men are flabbergasted by the young men’s adm…
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