sentences:  Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception.He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retell of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done no good at all in her life is sent to hell, but her guardian angel points out to God that she had in fact done "one" good deed in her life