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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Study Guide

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich study guide contains a biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov wakes up at five AM in a camp for political prisoners in Siberia. Today, he feels ill and lies in bed for a little longer. A mean guard, the Tartar, catches him there and sends him to the guardhouse, where he's forced to clean the floor but is not imprisoned. Shukhov next goes to the medical dispensary, where the medical assistant Vdovushkin tells him his temperature is too low to be kept back from work. Shukhov next rushes to the mess hall, where a prisoner named Fetiukov has saved his breakfast for him, and back to the barracks, to hide his bread ration in his mattress, before roll call.

Shukhov and the rest of the squad follow their leader Tiurin to roll call, where a prisoner named Tsezar shares a cigarette with…

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