Ivan Golovin Book Report

In my opinion, I felt that the view of Ivan IIych Golovin did change because the picture perfect life he thought he ensured was never perfect to begin with causing him to become oblivious to it. He was just an average man with a middle-class job, but for him life was picture-perfect. What Ivan failed to realize is he wasn’t any special than other middle class men in his time period. Life was good until it took an unexpected turn when an unforeseen illness consumed his life, changing his prospective on how he had viewed things before. The blind fold he had was slowly coming off and the people he thought were close to him started to slowly float away one by one. In the end, even his family believed he was a burden and an inconvenience to their daily lives.
Although he went from being a self-centered, person to opening his eyes to the reality of what was really going on around him. The friends he thought he had weren’t his friends and only cared about themselves. These supposedly colleagues/friends didn’t show any emotion or pity to hearing the news of Ivan passing. These individuals were more worried …show more content…
I have learned that everyone is going to die and no matter even if we try to hide from it sooner or later our time will come. Knowing this has changed the way I view life and those around me. Society has molded us to project that material things are more important than life. What we fail to notice is that those materialistic things we work so hard will be gone with a blink of an eye when we pass away. It’s hard as a human sometimes to realize our focus is selfish; it’s me first not thinking about someone else’s feelings. We always concentrate on what we are able to gain out of life and not what we can do to help someone else. Now knowing the things I’ve learned not only in this book but in class will hopefully help me to start thinking differently about the world around