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One Day in the Life of Ivan
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English
9th Grade
12/14/2010

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Law of the Jungle prisoners live by
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The strong will survive
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Gang bosses
Definition
get more/better food for the gangs and get them the best workloads/easy jobs/ect
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Can
Definition
Punishment for the prisoners
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What are prisoners known as
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numbers not people
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living conditions
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very cold, hungery
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what happens if you work your hardest
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you die
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dinner table etiquette
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dont spit fish bones on the floor, spit them on the table. not supposed to wear cap (but some still do) your level of importance in the gang determines where you sit
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food
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nasty
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how often do they bathe
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around every 13 days
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Lt Volkovoy nickname
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wolf face
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name of russina labor camp system
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Gulag
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Ivan's camp
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HQ
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reveille (wake up)
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5am
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Ivan's gang boss
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tyurin
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shukhov's treason
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"spy" from the Germans (was really a POW that escaped Germans
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who was shukhov assigned to work with
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kilgas
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Shukhov's sentence
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10 years
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story takes place
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1951
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Shukhov's family
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2 living children (daughters- had a son who died as a chid)
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shukhov is happy because?
Definition
he got extra food, tobacco, a hard days work, didn't go to the cooler, ect
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Moldavian
Definition
the dude thats missing
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prisoners worst enemy
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the guy standing next to him
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shukhov snuck
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a piece of metal that could be used as a knife (very useful - used to fix clothes or mend boots)
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packages sent to prisoners had?
Definition
a lot of goods taken by the time it gets to the person it was meant for- shukhov told his wife not to send him any and to use the $$$ on her and the children
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the can
Definition
punishment; a cement room with no windows. 10 days in there = weak, would get TB, never fully recover. 15 days in there = dead
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mid day caper?
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Ivan screws up the cook's count on person and swindles 2 extra bowls of food; one goes to himself and the other to Captain- Pavlo decided who got them
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what did the guards carry with them?
Definition
-tommy guns
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if an inmate squealed to others what would happen to them?
Definition
they would get abused, or killed, by other prisoners
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who's the real spy?
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Moldavian
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who was the most important man in camp to a prisoner?
Definition
their gang boss
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