First round of thoughts on "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich"

As I read the first half of the story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," I was rather confused as who the characters were and how the book was flowing.  It was hard for me to decipher who was the bad guys in camp and who were the good guys.  I knew that the guards were the bad guys but it seemed like all the other characters in the story who were the prisoners were all enemies of eachother and could not be trusted, thus being bad guys as well.  As I proceeded to read the second half of the story I began to understand who the characters were and started to really enjoy the book.  By the end of the book I was really drawn in and could feel the emotions of each character.  So, even though the story started slow for me at first, it ended with much anticipation and curiosity.