s fellowprisoners, but because he has retained his self-respect and humandignity^ (592). Shukhov also has a great deal of sympathy forSenka Klevshin. According to all accounts Senka had really beenthrough the mill. Most of the time he didn^t talk. He couldn^thear what people were saying and usually kept his mouth shut. Therefore, the other prisoners did not know much about him. Allthey knew was that he had been in Buchenwald and was in the campunderground there. He had smuggled arms in for an uprising. Then the Germans hung him up with his arms tied behind his backand beat him. Shukhov is always kind to Senka Klevshin. Heexplains things to him when he can not hear and is generallyhelpful. Almost all of the prisoners displayed this kind ofhumanitarianism when it came to helping Senka because they allknew that someday they might be in the same situation. Levitzkyreiterates this point concerning humanitarianism by stating thatShukhov^s ^soul is radiated by his belief in humanity, by theease with which he establishes human contacts^ (3300). The most hopeful part of the entire day for Ivan Denisovichwas during the period of hard labor when he worked laying a brickwall with Kilgas in the power plant. Ivan Denisovich ^does anhonest day^s work on his work detail, because that is the onlyway he knows how to work^ (Terras 592). Shukhov took pride inhis work and did not take kindly to those who did not. Of thebrick wall Shukhov said that ^he didn^t know the man who^d workedon it in his place before. But that guy sure didn^t know hisjob. He^d messed it up^ (Solzhenitsyn 107). It was moments likethese that Ivan Denisovich lived for. To make a wall out ofbrick and mortar was the closest thing to art that anyone in thecamps would ever create. Art gives people hope. Theconstruction of the brick wall gave Shukhov hope. He took pridein the wall; he ^was now getting used to the wall like it was hisown^ (Solzhenitsyn 107). Eve...
