s flat The old pawnbroker gives loans at cruel interest Raskolnikov takes an axe and kills her But Lizaveta Ivanovna suddenly enters She sees the blood Out of fear he kills her too The narrator says He killed them with an axe he brought with him This is his sin The murder is not only a physical crime It is also a moral sin His idea of extraordinary man collapses He thought he would feel strong But after sin he feels weak His room becomes like a prison His face looks pale His family Pulcheria and Dounia feel he is hiding something Thus sin begins his fall Suffering After the crime suffering grows inside him His body burns with fever He hears voices He sees dreams of blood In the streets of Petersburg he walks without direction He feels hunted Porfiry Petrovich the investigator uses psychology He tells Raskolnikov quietly No it was you you Rodion Romanovitch and no one else These words make him restless He feels his soul exposed Sonia poor daughter of Marmeladov also suffers She sells her body to feed her stepmother Katerina and her small children Yet she keeps her faith in God She tells Raskolnikov to read the story of Lazarus When Raskolnikov confesses to her Sonia cries but forgives She tells him Say to all men aloud I am a murderer Suffering is everywhere Marmeladov dies under a cart Pulcheria dies in sorrow Svidrigailov harasses Dounia and Razumihin weeps for his friend This shows that sin spreads pain like fire Redemption Redemption begins with Sonia s cross Raskolnikov tells her I have come for your cross Sonia This is a symbol He is ready to carry the weight of his sin He goes to the police Before Porfiry he finally says he killed Alyona and Lizaveta He is sent to Siberia for eight years In prison he feels broken But Sonia follows him She brings food love and a Bible She stands as light in the darkness In the last part Dostoevsky writes He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him This shows rebirth His redemption is not escape from jail but finding peace in love and faith Dounia marries Razumihin They plan to move near Siberia Life brings new hope Even in punishment there is a new beginning Crime and Punishment is truly a story of sin suffering and redemption Raskolnikov s sin begins in Petersburg s dark room His suffering continues in fever fear and guilt His redemption blooms through Sonia s love and God s mercy in Siberia The novel shows that man can fall but through repentance and love man can rise again