How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Paragraph). We used H.T. Willetts's translation.
Quote #10
That's what he'd decided, but whenever anybody in the gang or the hut got a parcel [...] he felt a pang - why isn't it for me? And although he had strictly forbidden his wife to send anything [...] he sometimes found himself expecting somebody to come running and say:
"Why don't you go and get it, Shukhov? There's a parcel for you."
Nobody came running. (926-8)
Aside from wishing for sleep, Shukhov's other wish is for a package, a piece of his home and his past essentially. The final sentence here really helps to create a lot of sympathy for Shukhov. It's a bit reminiscent of the final lines of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well, where the narrator talks of how the mermaids sing to each other, but not to him.
Quote #11
No Sunday off this week, they were being cheated out of Sunday again. [...] He'd expected it, all right, but hearing it nevertheless cut him to the quick. Who wouldn't be sorry for his precious Sunday rest? (932)
Shukhov definitely tries to remain cynical and practical in the camp, but he can't stop himself from hoping for things entirely, as we see here with the loss of his "Sunday rest."