Book Report

Class English
Student Name Preda Mihai
Book Title Dr. Zhivago
Publisher Feltrinelli (irst edition!" Pantheon Books
Publi#ation $ear %&'(
)evel
Pages '&*
To+i# Drama" )ove
Main #hara#ters $ur, -ndre,evi#h Zhivago" Mar,a Nikola,evna Zhivago
Minor #hara#ters Misha .ordon" -ver#ius Mikulitsin" -malia /arlovna .uishar
Time +eriod o the stor, %&0'12233
)o#ation o the stor, 4ussia
Boring 1 2 3 4 5 Interesting
Not Useful 1 2 3 4 5 Useful
Unsatisfactory 1 2 3 4 5 Satisfactory
Organization Poor 1 2 3 4 5 oo!
ra""ar #ifficult 1 2 3 4 5 $asy
%oca&ulary #ifficult 1 2 3 4 5 $asy
$nglis' (in general) #ifficult 1 2 3 4 5 $asy
*o"pre'ension (content ) #ifficult 1 2 3 4 5 + $asy
Su""ary, opinion
Doctor Zhivago tells the story of Yury Zhivago, a man torn between his love for two women while
caught in the tumultuous course of twentieth century Russian history. Yury's mother dies when he is
still a young boy, and he is raised by his uncle Kolya. He enrolls at the university in Moscow,
studying medicine. There he meets Tonya, and the two marry and have a son, asha.
Yury becomes a medical officer in the army and is stationed in a small town. He meets !ara, a
woman whom he has seen twice before. The first time, he visited the house of a woman who tried to
commit suicide, and he saw !ara, the woman's daughter, e"changing glances with an older man,
Komarovs#y. The second time, !ara tried to shoot Komarovs#y at a $arty and instead wounded a
$rosecutor from the courts. !ara is married to %asha, a young soldier who is missing, and she has
come west to find him. he has a daughter, Katya, whom she has left in Yuryatin, her birth$lace in
the &rals.
Yury is ca$tivated by !ara, but he returns to his wife and son in Moscow. Times are difficult, and the
family must struggle to find food and firewood. They decide to move east to 'aryni#o, an estate once
owned by Tonya's grandfather but now being wor#ed as a collective. The (ourney is long and difficult,
but when they arrive they find $lenty of food and wood. Yury goes to the nearest city, Yuryatin, to use
the library. There, he sees !ara once more. They begin an affair that lasts two months before Yury
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decides to brea# off contact and confess all to his wife. )n his way, he is ca$tured by the $artisan
army, which conscri$ts him as a medical officer.
Yury is forced to remain with the army through the end of the war between the Tsarist *hites and the
+ommunist Reds. *hen he is released, he returns to Yuryatin to find !ara. The two s$end several
months together, and then they go to 'ary#ino to hide. !ara's former husband, %asha, became a
leader in the &rals but is now wanted. Komarovs#y returns and urges them to go east with him to
avoid being #illed. Yury's family has been e"iled to %aris, and he is $romised the o$$ortunity to (oin
them. Yury tric#s !ara into ta#ing her daughter and going with Komarovs#y, while he remains at
'ary#ino.
Yury returns to Moscow and finds wor#. He begins living with Marina, the daughter of a family friend.
He and Marina have two children. Yury's old friends Misha and ,ic#y encourage him to resolve his
divided loyalties toward Tonya and Marina. He finds a new (ob but on the way to his first day at wor#
he dies of a heart attac#. !ara comes to the funeral and as#s Yury's half-brother, a lawyer, if there is
any way to trac# the location of a child given away to strangers. he stays for several days and then
disa$$ears, li#ely dying in a concentration cam$. Years later, Misha and ,ic#y are fighting in *orld
*ar .. and encounter a laundry-girl, Tanya, who tells them her life story. They determine that she is
the daughter of !ara and Yury.

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