How The Main Characters In "Crime And Punishment" And "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich" Cope To With Their Sufferings

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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 prisoners. He is
forced to live and work in conditions that would repulse the average person
today. "The belly is a rascal. It doesn't remember how well you treated it
yesterday , it'll cry out for more tomorrow." The way these people were
treated were inhumane and intolerable, yet Shukov continued to survive.
Work was used as a distraction from thinking about his pains, problems and
family.

Physical labour was one of two elements of Shukov's life that help him
survive. "And now Shukov and the other ...

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no more mention of any pains whatsoever.

The team leader also helped Shukov survive throughout the entire camp.
"That's what a team is. A guard can't get people to budge even in working
hours, but a team leader can tell his men to get on with the job even
during the break, and they'll do it. Because he's the one who feeds them.
And he'd never make them work for nothing." The team leader is an extremely
important element in survival in the camps as a good team leader could
possibly mean that the members of his team would get more food and better
jobs than the other teams in the camp, "You can cheat anyone you like in
camp, but not your team leader. Then you'll live." This quote shows ...

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