Summary: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
“Seventeen and half” (11) below zero and that is a warm day in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The climate is not the only challenging part of the Gulag; the fight to survive also includes a battle with one’s self and one’s fellow prisoners. If I were in the gulag, I think that the virtues of fortitude and hope would help me to survive. Two virtues that I would need to grow in to survive, I think are humility and charity.
To be humble in the Gulag and submit oneself to the lack of justice and logic would be difficult for me to do. Captain Buinovsky illustrates what I think I would struggle not to do at times; “You’ve no right to strip men in the cold. You don’t know Article Nine of the Criminal Code . . .
To be humble in the Gulag and submit oneself to the lack of justice and logic would be difficult for me to do. Captain Buinovsky illustrates what I think I would struggle not to do at times; “You’ve no right to strip men in the cold. You don’t know Article Nine of the Criminal Code . . .