Foreshadowing In Three Day Road

Three Day Road is told from two different perspectives; the perspective of Niska and Xavier and both of their pasts. As the author has created this dual narrated story, it offers the reader the opportunity to be able to make connections between the two and relate the very different stories and experiences. One important event of Niska’s past involves the “Windigo” and when she had to watch her father kill a Windigo. While Niska takes care of the young Xavier he witnesses Niska kill a Windigo. Foreshadowing, that he too will become a Windigo killer. It is after many insane events that Xavier realizes that Elijah has gone Windigo, and thus justifies why he had to kill him. However, the reader would not have been able to reach this conclusion