Behind this historical fact alone are the tears of hundreds of thousands of people. One of the inmates in the camp is a former hero of the Soviet Union. The author shows the fragility of the borders between the world of free people, treated courteously by the authorities, and prisoners. Solzhenitsyn’s irony here makes the reader involuntarily compare the image of the town with the whole country surrounded by an iron curtain. First, they pull the barbed wire and then start building. The prisoners in the story are building a socialist village. The author emphasizes that one should not become an animal and start licking bowls – people need to remain human in any circumstances. The second significant problem that a person faces when imprisoned is the problem of preserving their dignity. It is no coincidence that Shukhov never overslept – he wanted to have an additional one and a half hours of free time at his disposal. In the camp, the theme of time becomes especially critical. Being convicted unlawfully, many prisoners pay for the investigation’s mistake or someone’s criminal intent with their lives and freedom. The story views the issue of time from a specific perspective. Solzhenitsyn shows the extent of sophisticated forms of human exploitation a totalitarian state machine can develop.
Through the arguments and memories of Ivan Denisovich, the reader learns the smallest details of prisoners’ lives, some facts of the biography of the protagonist and his entourage, and the reasons why the heroes were imprisoned. Solzhenitsyn set out to describe one day, from early morning until late evening, of an ordinary person, an unremarkable prisoner.
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