Essay Comparing One Day In The Life Of Ivan And The Strangers

The Effect of Temperature on the plot in One Day in the Life of Ivan and The Strangers One Day in the Life of Ivan by Dos. was a very successful book with many literary devices. The story is told in fist person at times and in third person in other. Dos. has incorporated many literary devices into this book. The Strangers was written during the 1950s by Albert Camus. The diction in this book is very high with many telegraphic sentences. Both authors use many symbols and motifs in there book. In One Day in the life of Ivan the cold is a significant symbol and in The Strangers the heat is also an important symbol in the book. One Day is about a man named Ivan who lives in the cold Siberian prison located in a tundra. The cold in this novel has helped shaped Ivan’s personality. After many years in the prison he
If they didn’t exist in the novel then certain events would no have happened. In One Day the Ivan sleeps in the morning since he feels cold and sore. He later goes to the infirmary and it quotes “ How could a man who is warm feel the effects of a man who is cold. In this section Ivan is trying to get out of doing work since it one less day that he has to work. It is also the reason that he prays for a blizzard during the winter since it one less day. Ivan and the rest of his gang view the cold as a symbol of confinement in the prison. As long as they have been in the prison they have been cold at all times. The heat is viewed as freedom. Since the heat reminds them of the days before they were sent to the prison. In The Stragners one of the most dramtic irony might not have occurred if it weren’t for the heat. At the beach it quotes the sun hit my back, it burned as hot as a fire. Meursalut is very frustrated by the heat which is why he shot the Arab. He had to try to relieve his frustration and if it weren’t for the heat he might not have shot him and he would never have reached