The men show all that has been done within the gulag during one normal day with all the activities that have occurred. During the Stalin era, conditions were poor with people getting beat up and thrown in the cell with having to reason behind, having the audience being treated similarly to animals. Although the conditions destroyed the men by making them suffer, Solzhenitsyn shows how strong, the men truly are including what gets them through their days. The comparisons exemplify how brutally vicious the capitalization rule obtained for the people. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn analyzes dehumanization of the men in the gulags by using symbolism and imagery, such as the ration of bread, the spoon, and the
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The warmth of the bread gives Ivan hope, especially when he had the bread in a white rag “your bread” (147). The bread gives him a hope of getting out from the gulag to his family gaining more freedom than what is presented in. Not letting any piece of the bread get lost, shows how much strength he has put towards not messing up his chances of getting out. The conditions make Shukov think that “the belly is a demon” (142), not having much nutrition for the body as needed. The people who are in charge of the prisoners are making them feel malnutrition and unfed. The amount of food the men get is not healthy and makes them weak, eliminating many of them, if they do not balance what they are doing versus …show more content…
The amount of light that came through showed how the were stuck in the same cycle and did not have a way out. The less light that came, the less free the person was, making them trapped. The uncertainty of the camp came with “prisoners were not allowed to carry watches”(21). This made sure that the men did not comprehend when and where they were and at what hour, making them do more service. The benefits came to the higher power considering that they ended up having more chores complete as a result of the others not knowing how much time has
The warmth of the bread gives Ivan hope, especially when he had the bread in a white rag “your bread” (147). The bread gives him a hope of getting out from the gulag to his family gaining more freedom than what is presented in. Not letting any piece of the bread get lost, shows how much strength he has put towards not messing up his chances of getting out. The conditions make Shukov think that “the belly is a demon” (142), not having much nutrition for the body as needed. The people who are in charge of the prisoners are making them feel malnutrition and unfed. The amount of food the men get is not healthy and makes them weak, eliminating many of them, if they do not balance what they are doing versus …show more content…
The amount of light that came through showed how the were stuck in the same cycle and did not have a way out. The less light that came, the less free the person was, making them trapped. The uncertainty of the camp came with “prisoners were not allowed to carry watches”(21). This made sure that the men did not comprehend when and where they were and at what hour, making them do more service. The benefits came to the higher power considering that they ended up having more chores complete as a result of the others not knowing how much time has