"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." In the story of One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the people in the story are fighting their own hard battle. The person in this story that is fighting a hard battle is Ivan Denisovich. The story takes place in Siberia inside a "special" prison camp in Siberia. The book discusses about how a man faced a day in this "…showed first 75 words of 1331 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1331 total…Ivan was in did not exactly do anything wrong. However, under the Stalin rule, anything that was against Stalin's ways was a crime. Although this story was fiction, it was written by a former prisoner at a special camp making it more believable. I would recommend this book to a person who thinks life is extremely tough for them so that they will be able to see how tough life can really get to be.