The importance of Faith for Ivan. Alexander Solznenitsyn's novel " One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is a Russian novel about the brutal and undignifying conditions of the Russian gulag system. This novel follows our titular character Ivan Denisovich, referred as Shukhov, on one normal day of his 3,653 day prison sentence. Shukhov is a uneducated man who must fight to survive and keep his dignity, as conditions of the prison camp are draining on physical and emotional levels. However, Shukhov does manage to have a fruitful existence despite of the harshness of his surroundings, and also the detachment he feels from both the outside world and the life he once had. At first, Shukhov does not rely on, unlike his fellow
