In Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev, he uses child rebellion to help build the two main characters into better people. Even though going against traditional ways led to many conflicts, the two young boys would turn out to benefit from those experiences. The boys experienced many of these conflicts in the beginning, which hurt their relationship with their parents and others. Both of the characters would learn from their situations and would benefit greatly from them.
             The shared ideas of nihilism between Arcady and Bazarov hurt their families but help them to instill their own beliefs within themselves. Bazarov is very critical and often hurts the feelings of his friends and family. Bazarov also has a problem with respect. An example of his disrespect is when him and Arcady's family are sitting at the dinner table and Bazarov and Uncle Paul are talking about whether German Scientists or Russian Scientist are better. Because of his nihilist views he has problem saying,
             "A good chemist is more useful than a score poets," Bazarov interrupted. "Really?" Paul Petrovich said, raising his eyebrows slightly as though he were dozing off. "So you don't acknowledge art?" " The art of coining or that of claiming to banish hemorrhoids!" Bazarov exclaimed...
             That passage shows the disrespect that Bazarov has for his elders. Even though Bazarov was disrespecting Arcady's family, Arcady didn't do anything because he was still trying to understand and experience the nihilist views of his friend Bazarov.
             Bazarov also has a problem with showing emotion. This lack of emotion hurt his parents greatly and also hurt his relationship with them. After Bazarov had enrolled in college he rarely ever visited his parents and in fact had not seen them in three years. When he finally visited he did not stay very long. Actually he only stayed three days. Yo
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