What Is The Ending Of One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

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The ending to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was very fitting because you read the entire book zoomed in on just one day of what he has to go through. Then in the end it finally shows you the massive picture. The author makes you step back and really relays you what's going on. It paints a picture about how the one day compares to the rest of everything in his life. Even though the entire book sounded horrible and a brutal experience for Shukhov “he went to bed content” and it was “A day without a dark cloud” (Solzhenitsyn 167). For the most part the reader would be led to believe that this is absolute hell for Shukhov and that it’s unbearable;however, this really shows the contrast of what a good day and a bad day can be when you are

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