Fiction http://www.flickr.com/groups/kidz_art_program/pool/16817853@N00/ “One day in the life of a residential school teacher,” I began writing the blog. “What do you think you are?” asked my wife with marked irritation. “Ivan Denisovich?” Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is the protagonist of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel, One Day in the Life Ivan Denisovich . Ivan was a prisoner in a Stalinist labour camp in Russia. The fellow was an innocent peasant, almost illiterate, and very simple. The prison routine was meant to dehumanise the prisoners, but Ivan survived. He survived because he found meaning in that absurdly oppressive life, a meaning found by living intensively. He slogged like a slave and ate like a wolf. When he worked on a brick wall he worked as though every inch of it belonged to him. He was a Sisyphus without the spirit of rebellion. He was proud of whatever he did. “I’m Boxer,” I replied to my wife’s question. “Who are you going t
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