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How the Main Characters in "Crime and Punishment" and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Cope to With Their Sufferings Survival trough suffering is a general theme running through the novels. Different forms of survival occur because in different scenarios. ....

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.... Therefore, this essay is similar to an investigation into how the main characters of each novel manage to cope with each of their individual sufferings. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the main character, Shukov, is coping with a tremendous amount pain. "But try and spend eight years in a ‘ special'- doing hard labour. No-one's come out of a ‘special' alive." This shows how severe the conditions are as no-one has ever lasted a mere eight years. "A couple of hundred grams ruled your life." Here, he tells the reader that a few hundred grams of bread would determine a man's life in that camp showing how little food is given to the ....