It is always astounding to me how much a person can go through, still persevere, and survive. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel is a great example of this. Throughout the novel, Ivan Denisovich, a Russian Solder that has been wrongly accused of treason, is a prisoner of a Siberian labor camp. He must not only learn to survive on limited food, hard labor, and negative forty-degree weather, but he must learn to keep his identity in a place where the guards refer to him as a serial number, Shcha-854. In spite of this, he must learn to hold on to the little humanity he has left.…