A Day In the Life Of Ivan Denisovich

What do you see as the link between writing and incarceration? Why do you think that Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote this novel in the wake of his own time in the gulag? Write a mini-essay in which you consider the message of this novel within the greater context of literature of incarceration. For this mini-essay, you are allowed to include up to two outside sources, but at least two quotes must come from the novel itself.

Answering that with a thesis, evidence, analysis in MLA format