It made him feel miserable and sick inside. He was suffering from this and battling the fight to stay alive. .
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The cold stung. A murky fog wrapped itself around Shukhov and made him.
cough painfully. The temperature out there was -17; Shukhov's temperature .
was 99. The fight was on (p.19).
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The life in the camp lead Ivan to suffer greatly from dawn to dusk. Nonetheless this suffering also leads him to try to survive, to conquer the human suffering and at the end of the day he did not feel sick anymore. This is one of the purposes of human suffering among many others.
Human suffering sounds so painful, yet no one realizes that it is there to teach us humans a lesson. That love and caring are very precious and vitally important elements, however this can solely be attained through teamwork and understanding.
Camus knew this and in his novel The Plague it was made evident. In the beginning, the efforts of the inhabitants to fight the individual battles against the plague, but to know avail are described. People continue to suffer and lose their loved ones. Out of desperation, small volunteer groups evolve to fight the plague as a team and not as individuals. The Plague tells is a story of fight not against the disease, but against the indifference in the face of human suffering. Every character in the story responds to the catastrophe in their own way and this reaches to the heart of existentialism, thus it is actions that truly define a man. As the plague slowly takes control of the city of Oran. There is confusion everywhere, no one understands what has hit them but in their selfish pursuits the citizens turn a blind eye to accept the inhumanity of the situation. They try to cling onto the lives as they have always lived. Hence the struggle against the plague begins with individuals. It takes a lot of time for them to understand that an epidemic is something that affects one and all.
Similar to Solzhenitsyn, Camus starts off describing the life and people in Oran.
