In the realistic novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn portrays many characters as evil then transitions them, over the course of the novel, into caring zeks. The transformation of gang 104's foreman Tyurin is as amazing as Shukhov's day in itself. Tyurin is feared by many but also well appreciated for how he struggles to get the best for his gang. Shukhov comments at the beginning of the novel that Tyurin does not even squint when the brutal and arctic Siberian wind blows directly into his face, which shows how austere and fraudulent Tyurin is. Thus, I have chosen Tyurin for my "complex and important character" that we react to more sympathetically in the end of the novel due to his actions over the course of this novel.

At the beginning of the novel, Tyurin is a distant and terrifying authority figure, linked...