Reading Master and Man made me think a lot about how people treat others when they feel powerful versus when they are vulnerable. At the start, Vassili feels like he is better because of his wealth, and he treats others as though they are not as good. But as the story goes on and they’re trapped in the snow, his attitude shifts, and he realizes that all his money and power can’t save him. What surprised me was how it took a life-or-death situation for him to finally see Nikita’s humanity and even sacrifice himself. This book gives me questions. What if they had stopped in Grishkino for the night, would both of them have survived the night? I feel like if should not have taken a life and death situation for Vassili to realize that Nikita was a person. I also feel as though the story repeated a lot, to the point where it became predictable. if the story changed a bit and did not rush the ending, I feel like I would have enjoyed the story.