One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a story about a man, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, who is in a Russian Siberian prison/labor camp for expression of anti-Stalinistic ideas. The story describes the events of a single day in this man's life and his struggle to survive. I feel that the main theme of this book is survival. However, Ivan shows the reader that survival on your own isn't always possible. You can …showed first 75 words of 987 total…

…showed last 75 words of 987 total…springfield/APThemesLitProject98/APThemesStudentProjs/SolzhenitsynOneDay/solzhenitsyndaycharac.htm 2. Des Pres, Terrence. "The Heroism of Survival." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials. Ed. John B. Dunlap, Richard Haugh, and Alexis Klimoff. Belmont, Massachusetts: Nordland Publishing Company, 1973. 45-62. 3. "Overview: One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisovich" via the Internet at http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/APThemesLitProject98/APThemesStudentProjs/SolzhenitsynOneDay/solzhenitsyndayoverv.htm 4. Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.