One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Analysis of Tyurin

What is a leader? How can a leader be a prisoner? Why would a prisoner show compassion for others at the risk of putting his own life in jeopardy? These questions that I just shared with you are the basic guideline, the skeleton, of the character of which Alexander Solzhenitsyn portrays in his astonishing and eye-opening novel, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich. Mr. Solzhenitsyn has created a very peculiar personality for a very unique individual, and in this novel he finds that distinctive character, that one person that is fit to present this special individualism, and that man, is…