The Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden starts off in a town called Moose Factory in Canada shortly after WW1. “Auntie” is waiting for the arrival of her nephew, Xavier‘s, friend Elijah. However, she is shocked to find that it is her nephew who returns. She had received a letter that said her nephew had died in the field of battle and that Elijah was wounded, and only had one leg. When her nephew steps off the steps she thinks he is a ghost until he falls to the ground, because he to is shocked for he had heard that she was dead. Then they start their journey down the river to their home in the bush. On this journey they both reminisce of the past from when Auntie was a young girl all the way up to the end of the war. Auntie believes that Xavier is struck with a sickness that the wemistikoshiw, white men, medicine has on him. She starts to tell him a story of when she was a little girl during a harsh winter that her tribe had to go through. In hope that the spirits of the story would scare the sickness out of him. As she tells this story Xavier starts thinking back of times in the war. Him and Elijah started off as just two ordinary privates in their platoon. Then sergeant McCaan realizes that they are great hunters and can move about in the trenches with out the enemy spotting them so he begins to train them to be snipers. Elijah being the shooter and Xavier as his spotter they become very famous during the war. The trauma of the war starts to get to both of them. Xavier begins to get home sick and just wants to go back to the bush, but Elijah gets blood drunk from all the people he has killed. During this time Auntie keeps telling more stories to Xavier from her childhood, to when Xavier meets Elijah, all the way up to when they went off to the war. Auntie had taken Xavier from the nuns in Moose Factory when he was a little boy, and they lived in the bush…
In the play “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” and the story “Don’t Give Up The Fight” they both have the same theme. The common theme is being different. In “Don’t Give Up The Fight” Ava is the only girl on her track team and she gets bullied for being different, for being a girl. But in ”The Watsons Go to Birmingham” the Watsons are African American and they move to Birmingham but soon realize they should have never moved because of all the segregation and bombing all African American churches and homes in Birmingham. But in “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” the Watsons risk their lives for moving to Birmingham and being near lots of bombing, but in “Don’t Give Up The Fight” Ava just risks herself by letting Coach McCoy and Jacob bully her.…
They both show the theme in a different way by the characters’ actions. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah stands up for her bully. In, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” they just go with being segregated. “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” presents the theme being different more convincingly because this is something that people can relate to. For instance, when the Watsons had to eat somewhere else because of their skin color, people can relate that this is something that was going on long age and might have to go through the same…
Elijah and Xavier were always the best of friends. From the day they met at Residential School, they started to bond, and had a connection as strong as two brothers. However, they were eventually split apart, as Xavier had decided to fulfill his role as a bush Indian, and left with his Aunt Niska to live in the wilderness. When years had passed, Xavier got lonely, and the only person he wanted to have by his side was Elijah; thus, their friendship was rekindled. Now, many years later, they still have not left each others side. They consider each other as brothers, and yet, Xavier ends up killing Elijah. In the book Three Day Road, it is clear that Xavier enables Elijah’s actions before and during war that lead to Elijah’s eventual death, causing Xavier to fall ultimately responsible for Elijah’s death.…
The story opens in 1919 after the war and we are first introduces to an old woman named Niska, a native American living in Canadaand we learn she is a medicine woman and healer. She’s one of the last of her clan to live in the bush, having fought off going to the reserves and governments wanting to take the Indian out of the Indian at the time. She hears that her nephew who’s been sent off to the war has returned and paddles a long way to get to the train station. She sees just how much the war has left him damaged: he’s lost a leg and is addicted to morphine, which was the pain medicine was used at the time. She understands that he’s actually close to death and as she paddles him home, she realizes that in order to help him all she has to offer are the stories of her life. While she does this, Xavier who can’t even talk and almost deaf internally reflects on the past number of years, on his experience in the war with his childhood friend Elijah. This gives way to two different stories, two different narrators Niska and Xavier. The novel is structured like one of those Russian Matryoshka dolls, the ones where you open up the doll to find other, smaller dolls inside. Niska tells Xavier stories of her life, Elijah is obsessively compelled to tell Xavier war stories and poor Xavier is too damaged to speak of his own stories and so relives them in his morphine-addled head.…
In Josephs Boyden’s book Three Day Road, I got to read about the transformation of three main characters; Xavier, Elijah and Niska. As individuals we see these three go through change because of the events they experience in WWI. Elijah deals with the struggle of keeping in touch with his native background. Xavier challenges the urge to give into the morphine, along with the peer pressure to be someone he’s not by the people he’s surrounded by.…
They all worked together to make their rights equal. They also worked to get equal rights and be treated like anyone else would be treated. Park’s was and gracious woman and meant no harm to anyone. She wanted equal rights she hated being treated badly. One of the quotes were “ courage is standing up for what you believe in.”…
Many times the protagonists become the victims of the story and are eventually defeated. This is the case in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road. The protagonist, Xavier Bird, is the victim and is eventually defeated by the powers and doings of the people that he encounters during the war, and also by the uncontrollable forces that act upon him during the course of the war. Ultimately, these two factors overpower him and lead to his emotional defeat.…
To take the life of another man is considered to be a great sin, however when placed in a war setting, the inverse is true. When one thinks of a hero, they imagine a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. In the eyes of a country during war, these deeds and noble qualities relate directly to the amount of enemy kills a man acquires. War evokes the cruelty and immorality within a man and his country causing the definition of hero to be altered. Although upon their return, soldiers are placed on a pedestal, they are continuously reminded of the pain and suffering that they condemned their enemy to during combat. The novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, is a haunting tale of how different people cope with the horrors of war and how this diversity can drive them apart. The two main characters Elijah Weesageechack (Whiskeyjack) and Xavier Bird, young Cree Indian men, leave their home in the bush to defend their country’s honour. In this story, the reader is able to see how Elijah’s personality evolves from a respectful bush Indian who lives off the land, into a cold-blooded killer. As the novel progresses, it becomes evident to a great extent that the qualities which make Elijah heroic in the eyes of his country, are also the cause of his suffering and destruction. These qualities include his ability to kill, his need for inclusion by his peers, and his addiction to morphine. Had it not been for these qualities, Elijah might have been able to survive the war and remain true to himself maintaining his morals.…
New drivers may believe that driving an automobile is similar in every season, but experienced motorists are likely to know that winter and summer offer different pleasures and challenges. The most obvious distinctions between the seasons are the temperature, precipitation and amount of daylight. Each of these variables can change driving conditions dramatically. Indeed, some drivers even refrain from driving in certain weather. Fortunately, both seasons do have advantages so drivers can enjoy the road if they respect the effects of different seasons.…
Over the brief time I’ve been driving, I found there to be a drastic difference in driving in the winter and driving in the summer. The winter weather brings many dangerous conditions to contend with on the road that the summer does not. Cold, wet, freezing winters are much harder to drive in than the dryer summer months.…
In New England, the weather is always changing. Therefore, the road conditions are unpredictable. In the winter, the roads can be dangerous from snow, sleet, black ice patches. In the summer, the roads are usually not as dangerous, but driving in the heat is a hassle. You could get caught up in beach traffic or the air conditioning in your car doesn’t work.…
The final and biggest narrative convention that Harper Lee has used, that shapes societal norms and judgement is theme. Harper Lee’s messages in To Kill a Mockingbird are exhibited loud and clear through theme. The main themes that have been used are racism, social injustice and acceptance. By using theme as a narrative convention, the full influence of societal norms and judgment is greatly displayed through context. Through theme, it is shown that the social discrimination is an offspring of racism. The theme racism not only displays racial inequity, but it reveals the possibility of acceptance and change. Scout explains to Jem on how to categorize people. “Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” (Scout, Page 304). The whole book…
In states when the season winter has finally come people tend drive slower than summer because the roads are more likely to cause accidents since they’re so wet from the rain and snow. Drivers must avoid closeness between cars in case one individual on the road needs to break quickly. Also, snow can build up to be so high that it causes roads to be closed up to days or weeks. When it begins to drizzle and snow comes faster, drivers will highly find the need to use the wipers from the windshield. When snow increases by the time the sun goes down and becomes difficult to see roads, drives will most likely turn the emergency bright light that is located on the headlights up towards the front of the car.…
Everyone who has the privilege of learning to drive has to learn in whatever weather is occurring. This means driving in spring, summer, autumn, or winter. The task of learning to drive is stressful all on its’ own, but adding changing weather makes it all the more difficult. The most major concern is driving in the winter as compared to driving in the summer. Driving during these two seasons is like night and day for many reasons.…