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In Memory of Bazarov The characterization in the novel, Fathers and Sons written by Ivan Turgenev, is extremely important in helping the reader to understand the true meaning of the novel. These characters deeply develop their own sense of who they really are ad end up where they do, all thanks to one character, whom I think is the main protagonist, and that character is Bazarov. It may seem untrue to the reader at first …

…for his ability to do what he did. "A change had come over our friends of late: they all seemed to have grown handsomer and more virile; only Pavel was thinner, and this, incidentally, still further enhanced the elegant air of his expressive features...Fenichka, too, had altered...-They all smiled, and they all looked apologetic; they all felt a little awkward, a little sad, and, at bottom, very happy...-To Bazarov's memory." (Turgenev 290-291).