The Margin

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The Tortured Girl in the Outhouse

Also known as a little girl of five, poor child of five.

This is one of the examples Ivan gives Alyosha while arguing about innocent suffering. He describes cultivated parents tormenting a five-year-old girl and shutting her in a freezing outhouse, then asks how any future harmony could answer for such tears. The story concentrates his rebellion against a world in which children can suffer before they can understand guilt.

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