Ivan Denisovich reflection
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Reflective Writing
Time and place matter in the book ‘A day in the life of Ivan denisovich’ because everything the author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes is what he experienced in the past. When Ivan begins his day, it beings in a slow, monotone fashion and in the middle large chunks are taken out when he works because… At the end of the book, this monotone is repeated; this was only one day in the life of Ivan denisovich at his stay in the gulag (1951, in Russia, one of the days in his 10 year serving term) shukov had a trowel which he hid from others, he caught every crumb of bread to eat and never wasted a piece
The fact that the western world does know about Stalin and his regime and how this issue can be linked to other global crises such as Adolf Hitler’s regime shows that although we can completely discover what happened to the prisoners and the victims themselves, we can’t ever put ourselves in their positions and make the hard cutting the line decisions they would have to on a day to day basis (shukov gave up his boots, the things he cared about the most, for valenki). All called each other by their last names
We are like the doctor in the sense that, shukov asks him how can a man who’s warm understand a person who’s cold. We can’t begin to comprehend what it was like for the real author Solzhenitsyn. Also the idea of team 104, we all can relate to being a team member.
Although the literary features can’t be by the author as this was translated, there is a definite feel to the real literature. This is through the constant imagery and actually good use of monotone through the book. This makes it capturing but monotonous which was how every day the gulag prisoners spent in reality. The spoon was very symbolic as it was made by him and gives him a link to the real world. Lights in the prison and lights in the infirmary: the lights in the prison are strict and disciplined but the infirmary lights give a feel of softness
Time and place matter in the book ‘A day in the life of Ivan denisovich’ because everything the author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes is what he experienced in the past. When Ivan begins his day, it beings in a slow, monotone fashion and in the middle large chunks are taken out when he works because… At the end of the book, this monotone is repeated; this was only one day in the life of Ivan denisovich at his stay in the gulag (1951, in Russia, one of the days in his 10 year serving term) shukov had a trowel which he hid from others, he caught every crumb of bread to eat and never wasted a piece
The fact that the western world does know about Stalin and his regime and how this issue can be linked to other global crises such as Adolf Hitler’s regime shows that although we can completely discover what happened to the prisoners and the victims themselves, we can’t ever put ourselves in their positions and make the hard cutting the line decisions they would have to on a day to day basis (shukov gave up his boots, the things he cared about the most, for valenki). All called each other by their last names
We are like the doctor in the sense that, shukov asks him how can a man who’s warm understand a person who’s cold. We can’t begin to comprehend what it was like for the real author Solzhenitsyn. Also the idea of team 104, we all can relate to being a team member.
Although the literary features can’t be by the author as this was translated, there is a definite feel to the real literature. This is through the constant imagery and actually good use of monotone through the book. This makes it capturing but monotonous which was how every day the gulag prisoners spent in reality. The spoon was very symbolic as it was made by him and gives him a link to the real world. Lights in the prison and lights in the infirmary: the lights in the prison are strict and disciplined but the infirmary lights give a feel of softness