«BOYS» is an independent fragment and a separate plot line in F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel «The Brothers Karamazov».
«THE BOY AT CHRISTMAS TREE» and «THE BOY WITH A HANDLE (HANDLELESS?)» are stories from «The Diary of a Writer» for 1876.
In these works Dostoevsky reflects on the moral formation of a child, on the fragility and vulnerability of a child’s soul, on the difficult trials that sometimes fall to a child’s lot, on mercy and compassion, as well as on the struggle between good and evil within a person…