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Ilusha's School Persecution

Also known as all the boys have been teasing him, standing up against all the class alone, badly beaten, two months before had thrown stones at Ilusha, thrown stones at Ilusha, we've made it up with Ilusha.

Ilusha's School Persecution is the campaign of teasing and violence that follows Captain Snegiryov's humiliation. The boys mock the captain as a wisp of tow, and Ilusha answers as if defending his father's whole honor. By the time Alyosha hears the story, Ilusha has been badly beaten, has thrown stones, and has stabbed Krassotkin with a penknife.

X-III. The Schoolboy

Smurov tells Kolya that the boys have begun visiting Ilusha and making peace with him around his sickbed. The former persecutors now try to console the boy they once helped isolate.

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