The affect of the weather on the protagonist in THe Outsider and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

<Tab/>Camus and Solzhenitsyn both utilize weather to not only create a picture of mood, tone and atmosphere but also symbolically as a means of constricting the protagonist as well as a method of revealing subtleties about the protagonist in their novels The Outsider and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Both authors differ in literary style, however the common theme prevalent in both novels is exercised in much …

…the weather, however it his condition (prisoner in a gulag) that creates this enslaved state. Shukov becomes more and more admirable as the reader progresses through the story as he is one that perserveres and does not give up. Although there are years ahead of futile work and inhumane living conditions, Shukov attempts to make the most of each day. At the end of the novel, "Shukov went to sleep, and he was very happy."