One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich Summary

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich showed the readers the harsh situation the world war 2 have brought into the prison system that tortured the inmates mentally and physically without mercy. When that matter is discussed, accompanied with the crisis of communism in this case, the image of death came to mind when someone was put to sentence. This novel informed the reader about how it’s like to be imprisoned in the Gulag (Russian prison). The prisoners in Gulag would do physical work without proper treatment such as they would still work during extreme weather condition for more than 14 hours a day. The author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was once an inmate in account of his criticism against Joseph Stalin that led him into 11 years in the Gulag. This led him to experience the system of Gulag in first hand. From his experience, he got to write this book to tell the readers how it’s like to be imprisoned in Gulag in a realistic way possible, adding the schema to the readers how harsh this Gulag system worked, resulting

When people shared the same pain, sooner or later that attachment would appear. It didn’t always have to be a human to create an attachment with. It may be the coldness that crept into body when the morning came, the sound of the people marched to the work place, or even the little things someone had never paid attention before but it seemed valuable when they about to lose it. Even Shukhov himself felt rather confused about this. On page 62, the author described him, “as he no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not. To begin with, he’d wanted it very much, and counted up every evening how many days he still had to serve. Then he’d got fed up with it. And still later it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier – here or