What Does Shukhov Mean To Me

Hunger can cause the human body to make false conclusions that it would never feel on a full stomach. In Night, Elie Wiesel proves this point numerous times. Elie, as well as other characters, lost sight of their ethics due to human nature’s need for food. During the Holocaust, the prisoners in the concentration camps risked their lives for an extra crust of bread or ration of soup. The captives in the Holocaust acclimated to their surroundings and did anything they could for food. A battle to death was almost customary for extra food. The need for energy can cause a human to make ignorant decisions, thus allowing for a loss of their personal values.

Every laborer is assigned a quota and if they fulfill the quota, then they can eat. If you do not meet the quota then you are given just enough rations to stay alive. Almost everybody was on the level of starvation and everybody had to fight to survive. Father had the lowest difficulty of work but after getting caught preaching to the other prisoners, then he was put in the highest level of difficulty.

The teacher was very strict in the class, in marking out the work and loudly speaking out of the writer in the whole class. The teacher also ensured that the writer read the memoirs of teacher on how to become a writer. The fork achieved its mission of ensuring the speaker became a writer since it always reminded the speaker of the teacher. The speaker must have hated the teacher and therefore the spoon reminded the speaker of the strictness of the teacher and motivated the writer to be able to write.

He does this to show what goes through his mind when he is trying to acquire food for himself, and he gives a broad insight on how difficult it is to find healthy, non-poisoned food to eat in an everyday life.

Shukhov could not dwell on his past even if he wanted to due his situation in the camps. Little by little he forgot what life was outside of it. With spending 8 years in the labor camps, Shukhov had little to remind him what home looked like. “As time went by, he had less and less to remind him of the village of Temgenyovo and his cottage home. Life in the camp kept him on the go from getting-up time to lights-out. No time for brooding on the past” and “Since he’d been in the camps Shukhov had thought many a time of the food

Hunger can cause the human body to make conclusions that they would not have on a full stomach. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he proves the point numerous times. Elie among others loses sight of his ethics due to human nature, needing food. During the Holocaust, the prisoners in concentration camps would risk their lives for an extra crust of bread or ration of soup. The captives of the Holocaust had to acclimate to their surroundings and do anything they could for food. The need for energy can cause a human to make ignorant decisions, thus allowing for a loss of their personal values.

In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn shows how Soviet prisoners, known as Zeks, are treated while being in the gulag for one day through the eyes of the protagonist and omniscient narrator named Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Despite being in an environment such as the Soviet Union, where there is harsh tundra and not much food to eat, Shukhov tries to make good use of what he has received while trying to keep himself alive. The purpose of Solzhenitsyn’s portrayal of food is to show its overall significance and that it is used as a means of trade and survival. Over time, the power of food reveals its significance to the Zeks and especially to Shukhov and food allows both groups understanding towards the necessity of food for their vitality and well-being additionally.

Mr. Acevedo says that he used to write down recipes on a piece of paper and discuss it with his buddies on what he wanted to eat the moment he would get home. The only food the prisoners would get is one hundred grams of bread every week and soup made from rats. Acevedo was scared but kept his faith. “Some didn’t have the faith but I always tried to remind myself that ‘Hey, you always have someone else to live for. (Drash)’”

Shukhov always craves to get extra meals to have enough energy for his work from Pavlo, who can give extra meals to someone. For these reasons, he uses different kinds of deception and does actions that show favors to Pavlo. For example, Shukhov stands across Pavlo after he finishes the first bowl because “Pavlo would see he’d finished and give him a second bowl” (p. 64). Also, Shukhov deceives the cook that he counted the number of bowls wrong and gets a chance to have an extra meal. In the camp that prisoners get in trouble easily with unjust reasons, he could get in trouble with his cunning and trickery. However, he still strives to get more rations in any way by using his personal power of boldness and astuteness.

In Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist”, he describes the horrifying story of a man who imprisons himself in a cage for forty days without eating because of an inner desire to receive attention from others. The whole town flocks to watch the man accomplish his great feat, and he would “let them feel how skinny he was” to show off his great accomplishment (Kafka 322). However, the man finds it difficult to complete his fast when the watchmen, who were left outside his cage to ensure he kept true to his fast, leave him to “give the hunger artist the chance to take a little refreshment, which they assumed he could produce from some secret stash” (Kafka 323). But, if the guarding

By using the scrap piece of metal, the author is able to represent Shukhov’s resourcefulness, creativity, and overall hopeful attitude. To begin,

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born a year before the emancipation of serfism in Russia took place. Although he was the grandson of a serf, Chekhov was able to attend the medical school at the University of Moscow and become a physician. Chekhov started writing in order to support his family economically, becoming a master in drama and short stories. His literature is characterized by the use of colloquial language which could be understood even by the less educated and recently liberated serfs. Social change is the main theme in ‘The Cherry Orchard’, a four-act play written in 1904. In this play the different characters portray how changes in Russia after the emancipation of 1861 were taking place and although the play is set several

In Franz Kafka’s short story, “A Hunger Artist”, Kafka introduces an eccentric man known as the Hunger Artist. The Hunger Artist has committed his entire life to the art of fasting, allowing himself to be caged and displayed to the public as if he were a painting (Kafka 198). Despite all the emotional turmoil he endures, he takes a great amount of pride in fasting and believes that he can fast for extremely elongated periods (Kafka 200). Unfortunately, his pride not only causes internal conflicts but also tragically leads to his unfortunate demise (Kafka 205). Through the setting and the character development of the Hunger Artist, Kafka illuminates the dangers of self-pride and depicts pride as harmful and detrimental to one’s existence.

By shrinking the reader's horizon and forcing to only look at one specific day of Shukhov’s, it really paints a picture as to what they actually had to deal with everyday. This is a lot different than other books that fall in the same genre, many

People seem to think that the death penalty is the easy way out of a punishment from the government, but they do not think about all the negative outcomes and effects of being sentenced to life in prison. Most people seem to think getting the death penalty is just simply cruel and unusual punishment, but being stuck in a cell room twenty-four hours a day is not cruel or unusual? Life in prison takes the life out of the convict; most even commit suicide in prison because they no longer have anything to live for. From the story “The Bet” written by Anton Chekhov, he uses the lawyer’s behavior after fifteen years in solitary confinement to show how life in prison could be worse than the death penalty.