If you thought pronouncing names like "Denisovich" and "Solzhenitsyn" were going to be the most difficult parts of teaching the novel, well, you're wrong.

Cue the novelist's three narrative points of view: limited omniscient, first person, and second person. It's likely that your class hasn't encountered a book with such variety of narrative modes before, especially in such close proximity to each other. The narratives overlap and intermix within a very short space of time. But that's not to say all hope is lost. The novel gives the opportunity to identify these differing narrative approaches and note their contrasting states. We love getting them talking about stylistic choices, and this is certainly a text that allows for lots of that.