In the book One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn there are many different moods that can be taken in. Even though while living in a gulag you could get a few laughs, as well as a lot of frustration and sadness. The author creates the tone and mood of the book by the use of word choice, metaphors, imagery, or actions. This book is based on a time span of one day of a man's life in a Russian gulag. A gulag being a forced labor camp where prisoners completed huge architectural projects including the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Baikal…