Category: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Why do we need narratives? Why do we keep telling stories? Since the dawn of time, people have told stories about their lives, their loves and their losses. We tell stories to help us with our quest for freedom. When the ability to express our past is lost, we lose a sense of who we…

The novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a story surrounding the life of a man as he lives a day through the harsh camps of the Soviet Gulag. This camp has awful conditions and causes the prisoners to rely on others for basic human needs. Each prisoner is…

Why do we need narratives? Why do we keep telling stories? Since the dawn of time, people have told stories about their lives, their loves and their losses. We tell stories to help us with our quest for freedom. When the ability to express our past is lost, we lose a sense of who we…

The novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a story surrounding the life of a man as he lives a day through the harsh camps of the Soviet Gulag. This camp has awful conditions and causes the prisoners to rely on others for basic human needs. Each prisoner is…