Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel narrating the life of a Russian prisoner in a labor camp in Siberia that strips the prisoners of their individuality. The conditions of the camp were not humane, yet the prisoners were forced to fight for their lives everyday, and there were those who were willing to throw away their humanity just to live for another day, another hour. In the camp, it is every man for themselves if they want to survive, however, the main Character, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, or Shukhov rather prove the prisoner's wrong by keep his humanity, and his dignity as a human being as a mean for survival in the camp made to completely destroy the spirit of any human being that step foot inside. Shukhov, a prisoner sentenced
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The novel is being written in third-person limited point of view. The main protagonist, Shukhov, was not the one who was narrating the story but there was another person, another prisoners perhaps narrating the story as if that prisoner sees through the eye of Shukov. The author chose this narrative method simply as a way to show that every prisoners are on the same boat, suffering the same things in that camp yet the action of those prisoners will have a greater impact on whether they will have another to live or not. “Eight years in the camp couldn't Chang hi stature. He worried about anything he could make use of, about every scrap of work he could do” (Solzhenitsyn 105). Shukhov has been in the camp for eight years, yet he hasn’t change his nature to adapt to his life in the camp. He remained working on building the wall, even though it was time to go. Shukhov kept on going even though other prisoners left for their foods for the day. Shukhov still has his dignity and still kept up to his principle, that he will finish the job he started. He never wanted to waste anything simply because he became a man who lost everything as a human, which make him understand the value of every little things in the camp which also give him the strength to survive the camp that reduced him to a mere animal. By narrating in a third person limited, it show that other prisoners can be just like Shukhov, with the dignity
The novel is being written in third-person limited point of view. The main protagonist, Shukhov, was not the one who was narrating the story but there was another person, another prisoners perhaps narrating the story as if that prisoner sees through the eye of Shukov. The author chose this narrative method simply as a way to show that every prisoners are on the same boat, suffering the same things in that camp yet the action of those prisoners will have a greater impact on whether they will have another to live or not. “Eight years in the camp couldn't Chang hi stature. He worried about anything he could make use of, about every scrap of work he could do” (Solzhenitsyn 105). Shukhov has been in the camp for eight years, yet he hasn’t change his nature to adapt to his life in the camp. He remained working on building the wall, even though it was time to go. Shukhov kept on going even though other prisoners left for their foods for the day. Shukhov still has his dignity and still kept up to his principle, that he will finish the job he started. He never wanted to waste anything simply because he became a man who lost everything as a human, which make him understand the value of every little things in the camp which also give him the strength to survive the camp that reduced him to a mere animal. By narrating in a third person limited, it show that other prisoners can be just like Shukhov, with the dignity