ed a parcel […] his heart ached because there wasn’t one for him." Shukhovs struggle must have been enormous, but despite his family living thousands of kilometers in probably poor conditions away from him, he is surviving mentally this term. I would give up completely all my hope and would die in this camp. Alexander Solzhenitsyn knows very well how to create an exciting and wonderful visual picture of the nature in the reader’s mind. "One chills to the 17-below-zero cold of Siberia" or "the peaks her highest stand" are only some sentences, describing the landscape. I really like to analyze the Russian winter, which is sometimes ironically very sunny and dry, but at the same time bitter cold. Especially, when the stars are shining the frost gets more and more into our skin. (Un)Fortunately here in Western Washington our winters are in average more wetter and milder. ...
