ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

SETTING

• Labor Camp
• Soviet Union 1954
• Unspecified location
• Camp feels depressive and inescapable

SYMBOLS

• Ivan's Spoon: makes him feel unique to other prisoners
• Bread: represents physical nourishment. The Lord's Prayer
• Tsezar's Parcel: represents pleasures in life and all the good things on Earth

CHARACTERS

• Each character each have their own purpose
• Alyoshka: many prisoners usually lose their religion when they enter a labor camp because they give up everything else so they feel as though religion isn't important. But, he held onto his religion which makes him a strong character.
• Characters in this book represent a way of how to make a life in a horrible condition.

MOTIFS

• Isolation
• Imprisonment
• It suggests that society outside of the prison is insane and it isn't put together quite well.
• The prison is isolated from society do it prevents the prisoners from being corrupted even more than they already are.

Plot
A group of prisoners trying to go insane in this prison and trying to make the best of a horrible situation.

TONE

• Anger
• Exhaustion
• Silence
• Writer want ps reader to feel what prisoners experienced.