Quarterly review on "Joseph Boydens" - Three day road
Quarterly review on:
“Joseph Boyden’s – Three Day Road”
In the beginning we establish that Niska (Xavier’s aunt) has traveled a long way, paddling her canoe up stream to pick up her injured nephew Xavier who also suffers from an addiction to morphine. Her son (Elijah) left to war with Xavier but was killed in action. Niska feels very uncomfortable in this strange white man’s town, she is a traditionally women with strong beliefs. On their departure home, Xavier begins to tell his story of first arriving to the battle field, all the people he has met, the skills we was taught for battle and the ways of a white man. We learn that Xavier’s childhood has prepared him for battle due to his excellent hunting skills, tracking skills and his ability to be comfortable in nature. While the boy’s endure their training, they become subject to racism by the veterans teaching them.
The training continues, they learn about; rifles, grenades, periscopes, flares, ext. On their first mission, Xavier is almost shot and this allows him to have a very strong reality check as to how serious war is. We then are reminded of how strong and serious Xavier’s addiction is, he cherishes every moment he has while under the false reality the drug delivers. His auntie doesn’t not agree with the use of white medicine, she is a traditional native women who is actually consider to be a healer as well as a fortune teller. Niksa tries to get Xavier to tell her his stories about the war as a healing process. We are then told a story about the culture of Niska’s people and how they hunt and spare nothing to waste from an animal. We are also told the story of the Windigo (a twenty foot tall mythical beast) that Niska’s father has been sent to kill. While Niska watches her father kill the beast she all of a sudden inherits his fortune telling powers. She feels the sad irony of killing the beast to help the white man, who eventually takes her peoples land away.
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“Joseph Boyden’s – Three Day Road”
In the beginning we establish that Niska (Xavier’s aunt) has traveled a long way, paddling her canoe up stream to pick up her injured nephew Xavier who also suffers from an addiction to morphine. Her son (Elijah) left to war with Xavier but was killed in action. Niska feels very uncomfortable in this strange white man’s town, she is a traditionally women with strong beliefs. On their departure home, Xavier begins to tell his story of first arriving to the battle field, all the people he has met, the skills we was taught for battle and the ways of a white man. We learn that Xavier’s childhood has prepared him for battle due to his excellent hunting skills, tracking skills and his ability to be comfortable in nature. While the boy’s endure their training, they become subject to racism by the veterans teaching them.
The training continues, they learn about; rifles, grenades, periscopes, flares, ext. On their first mission, Xavier is almost shot and this allows him to have a very strong reality check as to how serious war is. We then are reminded of how strong and serious Xavier’s addiction is, he cherishes every moment he has while under the false reality the drug delivers. His auntie doesn’t not agree with the use of white medicine, she is a traditional native women who is actually consider to be a healer as well as a fortune teller. Niksa tries to get Xavier to tell her his stories about the war as a healing process. We are then told a story about the culture of Niska’s people and how they hunt and spare nothing to waste from an animal. We are also told the story of the Windigo (a twenty foot tall mythical beast) that Niska’s father has been sent to kill. While Niska watches her father kill the beast she all of a sudden inherits his fortune telling powers. She feels the sad irony of killing the beast to help the white man, who eventually takes her peoples land away.
We then learn about