The assignment is a three-page paper based on reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. This exercise is to write an essay that argues a specific point based on the reading of the novel. The paper is a five-paragraph essay: introduction, three paragraphs giving examples, and a conclusion. The goal of this paper should be to produce a clear and precise essay—one that makes a logical argument based on the reading and stays focused tightly on the issue.
Please answer ONE of the following questions: 1. How does the ideology of the Soviet Union mold the conditions in the camp? 2. What survival techniques did one character in the novel practice to survive the camp and how do those actions and thoughts relate to the politics, ideology, and history of the Soviet Union?
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