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Ivan Denisovich Schematics Literature Mayclin-1

I. Wake up

A. Wake up at 5 A.M

1. Normally gets up then

2. Extra chores you can do to get extra food

a. If you go to clean dishes, end up licking the bowl

3. Didn’t get up right away

4. Really sore

B. Worried about having to build Socialist Community Development

1. Gang Master has to go try to keep them from doing that

2. Wouldn’t ever get warm

C. Bunkmates

1. Baptist on top

2. Navy on bottom

D. Shortcharged Rations

E. 3 days in can S-854

II. Walk outside Barracks

A. Everything surrounded with barbed wire fence

B. If below -42 degrees, not supposed to work

1. Thermometer hung in sheltered spot

C. Doesn’t have to go in the can

1. Just scrub the floor in the HQ

D. Tyurin – boss of Sukhov’s work gang

E. Footwear

1. A lot depends on it

a. Had good boots from town

b. Had to turn them in though

c. While mopping gets water on warders boots

d. Spills water on path used by top brass

F. Hierarchy of people

1. Some jobs Sukhov won’t do

2. Had someone guard his breakfast

3. Special spoon

a. Urz-hist, different prisoner camp 1944

G. Prisoners own time

1. Breakfast-10 minutes

2. Noon break-5

3. Supper-5 minutes

H. Gruel was whatever was stored for the winter

I. Also have magara, which is a lump of millet/grass

J. Latvian Got Tobacco, but decide to go to hospital instead

III. Try to get sick leave

A. Hospital


1. try to get sick leave

2. only excuse two in the morning

3. Sukhov makes sure his posture expresses that he doesn’t expect very much

4. Wants to get sick for time off

5. Temp wasn’t high enough to get off

B. Bathe 13 days

IV. Barracks before Role Call

A. Waiting for Role Call

B. Can judge how much bread (had so many) he was shorted out

1. hid rations in mattress

V. Roll Call

A. Don’t have to work on Socialist Community Development

B. Boss bribes people with fatback

C. Get Number redone

D. Cigarette

1. Ceaser is smoking

2. Sukhov wants some

3. gets the butt before Fetukov scavenger

E. Searched

1. Have to open coats to get searched, not normal

2. One of squad was wearing non-reg clothes, were taken away

a. called not communist, solitary for 10 days

3. Lost the heat they had under their coats

VI. Walking out to power Station

A. surrounded by Guards

B. Very Cold, ave Face rags

C. worry about eople finding bread, etc.

VII. Sending Letters

A. only sends two a year to wife

B. who works on a farm and lives in poverty

1. some peasants don’t even work in their own village

C. Wife wants him to become a “Carpet Painter”

D. Sukhov doesn’t have to make his own decesions, because other people do all of that for

him

E. Don’t learn wifes name

VIII. Start Work

A. 8:00

B. Some higher-ups go into office

C. Ceaser able to bribe people for good job

D. Baptist Alyouska looks happy when the sun is rising, despite the hard conditions that he

has to deal with

IX. Waiting to Work


A. inside, good time of day because don’t have to wok yet, but can get warm

B. Really hungry so sukhov eats bread

1. normally would wait until break

C. In vehicle Repair Shop

X. Almost Ready to work

A. talk about two Latvians

1. hadn’t met a mean one

2. weren’t actually brothers

3. but did verything together (sleep next to each other)

B. Save crust of bread for better spoon

C. Wish for a blizzard, though they have to work Sundays to make up for it

XI. Begin Working

A. Working on Powerplant

1. sukhov(carpenter) needs to board up the windows along with other god worker

B. Gets hidden trowel

1. Hides his favorite one

C. Group 82 attempting to dig holes in the ground

1. can’t start a fire to thaw

D. Hide carrying the roofing felt

E. Have to carry materials (bricks/mortar) to second floor by hand

F. sukhov switch job to fixing stove to get it going fast

G. Remove handrail for wood to do window things

XII. Fixing Stove

A. brick one for drying off sand

1. Fetukov and Captain carry sand

a. Fetukov was in charge before, so has menial task now

B. Get stove going

C. Need hot sand to mix cement (keep from freezing)

D. Mundane details

E. Go on to discussing Sentences

1. Sukhov has done 8 of his 10 years

2. Government tends to add on years though

XIII. Why Sukhov is in Prison

A. Treason

B. Escaped from German POW camp

1. others got killed

2. looked like treason to Soviets

XIV. More Past

A. Was at penal camp in North

1. much harder, had to fill quota everyday

2. morning to night if not fill quota

B. Squealers get killed


XV. Mealtime

A. Mess House only holds 2 gangs

1. 11 at the site

B. Mess house dirt floor with stove and cauldron

1. Cook doesn’t’ carry the groats

2. everyone uses same 50 bowls

3. cook and sanitary inspector don’t actually do anything

C. Food

1. magara

2. flour and water

3. or oats (best)

D. Get the cook messed up counting bowls, get 2 extra

E. Ivan Denisovich gets 1 extra bowl

1. splits with Captain

F. Pavlo say other bowl to Ceasar

1. instead give it to captain

G. Take original bowl to ceaser

1. Having “Learned” conversation

2. Ceasr takes bowl like sukhov doesn’t exist

H. Picks up piece of metal

1. put in knee pocket

XVI. Return to Work

A. Tyruin got the crew better rates

1. good bread for 4 days

B. Tyrin tells part of tale reason he is in

1. Military

2. good at it

3. officer kicks him out for being son of Kulak

XVII. Smoking

A. loans from the Latvians

1. fetukov gets angry bout it

2. not give butt to fetukov

XVIII. More Boss tale

A. get boiling water for girl on train

B. conductor didn’t push off because thought belonged with soldiers

C. compartment he was in had girls coming back from school

1. wealthy

D. Girls hid him so could travel

E. Also told/taught/left brother on the street

XIX. Start Work

A. mortar and lay brick

B. 4 people work laying bricks so it doesn’t freeze


1. have to clear/scrub ice off of the walls first

2. Laying bricks fast

3. Fetukov is once again being a scumbag

4. so alyoshka put on to carry mortar, and fetukov bricks

C. Electricians come to fix hoist

1. one watch, one works

D. Building foreman, Der, found out about roofing felt

1. Tyurin get threatened

2. another sentence

E. Gang (Pavlo, Senka, Tyurin) threated to kill Der

1. He Shut up

2. Tyurin tells him to tell the supervisor that th stuff was there before

F. Critizes Sukhov

XX. Continued Work

A. Keep laying

B. onto 5th row

C. really getting into stride

D. other gangs start quiting

1. made too much mortar

2. have to keep laying

E. Everyone very tired

F. LATE for heading back

G. Had to hide trowel

H. Group yells curses at Sukhov and Senka for being the last to get back.

XXI. God Talk

A. Talk with captain about where moon comes from

1. Sukhov says got breaks it up everymonth to replace the stars that fall from the sky

XXII. Recount

A. Gaurds have to recount all of the people.

B. Everyprisoner brings back a little firewood

1. bararacks that much warmer

C. Want to be the first back

D. Moldavian spy is missing

E. would wait for weeks if guards don’t think he got away and is just waiting in the

compound

XXIII. Movie Discussion

A. between Ceasar and Captain

XXIV. Found

A. guards found the Moldavian, gets beat up a little bit

B. headed back Finally

C. Captain in because he was a liason officer and British officer sent “In Gratitude” Soviner,

now in prison


XXV. Walk Back

A. some talk

B. Escort Chief tries to get them to walk faster, but they won’t

C. see other column from tool factory

1. start moving much faster to beat the other column to camp

D. Tool workers get severly frisked, because they brought in the knives that killed the

squealers

E. Beat the other column back

XXVI. Frisking

A. Offer to hold place for Ceasar in Package line

B. Realize that Sukhov has the pice of metal in his knee pocket

C. Choose old waarder, slip metal into mittens

XXVII. After Frisking

A. love the hot soup that they get

B. Packages are “taxed by the mailman dude”

C. Sukhov used to get packages, but knew they were too expensive for his wife so he told her

to quit sending them

D. Won’t have Sunday off, but that’s common

E. in Return, Ceasar lets sukhov have his gruel for supper

XXVIII. To barracks/mess hall

A. Avoid Warders

B. Have to get in with gang

C. Clubfoot was beating up people when they weren’t with their gang

D. Sukhov eventually catches up to gang

E. Have to have trays

1. determined and eventully do get some trays

F. Get the trays and bowls

1. watch which ones are filled the best

G. Hard to carry 10 trays without spilling them

H. Good day, two servings at noon and at supper

XXIX. Old man descritiption

A. has been in for a really long time

B. lost his teeth

C. still has a straight back

D. still looks determined to not give in

XXX. To the Latvians

A. Went to get the tobacco from the Latvians

1. Pay two rubles

B. Ceasar got package

1. allows sukhov to have his bread

C. Have to pay a lot of people with stuff from packages

1. those who help you get it


2. those who watch it in the saferoom

3. the gang boss

4. the trusty

5. Washerman

6. barber

7. letter dude

D. Gang boss made “real” tea from the stuff that Ceasar got iin his package

E. Caesar borrowed sukhov’s 10 day (penknife) so now owes him for that too

F. pay back Estonian tobacco

G. Snubnose dude comes in

1. why aren’t extra clothes reports in?

2. boss smoothely lies

3. Captain has to go to can for 10 days

XXXI. Cell

A. 104 built it

1. bare floors

2. no coat

3. small stove

4. 6 ounces of bread a day

5. hot gruel every third day

6. likely die with 10 days

7. definitely die with 15 days

XXXII. Night Check

A. Ceasar would likely lose his package

1. sukhov tells him to stay in bed, and say that he was sick

2. will be the first one back from night check

3. Everyone lines up

B. When officer things beat people

1. carful about who they beat

2. only those that can’t hit back

C. Sukhov race back to Ceasar’s bunk

1. put (Sukhov’s) boots on the stove to dry

2. watch Caesars package

XXXIII. To Bed

A. Alyoshka says “God! Yeah!”

B. Sukhov says “no.”

C. Second Check

D. Caesar gives Sukhov two lumps of sugar, two cookies, and a sausage to hid his bag

E. finish second check

F. Go to bed

G. Today was a good day


Quotes:

All get something extra, or all starve

year 1951, left home in 1941

“When you’re cold, don’t expect sympathy from someone who is warm

Ust-Izhama 1944 (spoon

Who is the Prisoner’s Worst Enemy? The guy next to him.

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