A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Introduction

"One day of Ivan Denisovich" relates to one of the facts of the biography of the author in a special camp in the winter 1950-51. The protagonist of the story is Solzhenitsyn (Ivan Denisovich Shukhov) who is an ordinary prisoner of the Stalinist camps. A day is enough to understand what conditions prevailed in the camp. There are law and orders, and the novel focuses on learning about the lives of prisoners. In the camp, there are completely different laws, different from usual, and everyone now survives on their own. Life is not shown in the zone from the outside, but inside the person who knows about it firsthand, but on his personal experience (Dawkins, 30). That is why the story affects their realism. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov was sentenced to ten years in fraudulent charges: he was accused that he had returned from captivity with the secret German task assignment. He had suffered the same fate as millions of others who fought for their country, but at the end of the war prisoners from German concentration, camps were prisoners of the Stalinist gulag camps. As a man, he cannot command respect in spite of all the conditions he managed to keep kindness and friendly attitude towards people (Pearce, 1). Shukhov was willing to share with a righteous man, even just to bring that fun. Solzhenitsyn's story is written in comprehensible language. He does not resort to any complex literary devices, and there are no metaphors, detailed comparisons, or hyperbole. The story depicts a simple language of a camp prisoner which can often be found in everyday speech cons (Dawkins, 36).

Thesis Statement

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn presents a realistic view about life in a Siberian prison camp in this biographical fictional world.

Aspects of Fictional Culture in the Novel

The Ritualization of Eating

For Shukhov, the mealtime is a sacred moment. One of the most different cultures shown is the ritual of removing his hat to connect with the pre prison world and retains the self respect. Shukhov wants to take control of the work making it his hoe someway (Roepke, 72). For example, the beginning few lines in the novel are as follows: “Shukhov through the stove, poured water on the track, where there was a boss, and moved into the dining room. Surprisingly, there was no queue. The dining room is cold, so all sit with their hats on. They eat slowly, spitting out the bones on the table when they typed a lot, sweep the floor. Just spitting on the floor is somehow messy. Odnobrigadnik Fetyukov shore breakfast. Ivan Denisovich took off his hat with a shaved head - could not he have a hat. The most well-fed while the prisoners. June: Every vegetable ends and is replaced grains. In July, the hungriest - nettles in pot flogged. Shukhov did not go to the barracks, so do not get a ration of bread, and ate without him” (Pearce, 2003, 2). This practice of ritualizing the ...