At this part in the story Shukhov is being punished for committing a crime we the readers are not even sure he actually commited. The point of punishment is to teach an indivdual the wrong doing in their actions, and to take personal responsibility for oneselves. When people are punished for things outside of his or her control the idea of personal responsibilty looses all meaning. With wrongful accusations crime rates can actually rise because people tend to become less caring about difference between right and wrong. Especially if they are going to be punished anyway.
The author constantly using different names for the same person was incredibly confusing. At first it seemed as if they were to separte characters, when instead i think the author wanted the reading to translate it as Ivan no longer being the same person after being at the camp. This idea is probably really stretching it though, just something i noticed. In the camp it seems as if none of them have an identity.
Each day the prisoners are striped and searched for forbidden items that they may have possibly some how smuggled. The prisoners have to take their clothes off in freezing cold temperatures and in front of everyone. The daily strip and search serves as a way for the camp to keep communist. If no one is allowed to have anything forbidden then they are all of the same class even though they are in prison.
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