Analysis Of The Poem ' Three Day Road ' By Joseph Boyden

Have you ever wonder how people survive and thrive in Antarctica? In the excerpt from the story Alone by Richard E. Byrd the narrator explains how a man lives in Antarctica for 5 months during the winter alone in -83°F weather. Being alone changes a person’s attitude and state of mind. When you are alone people tend to start to become more negative and have a gloomy mindset.

Stanza 1: “The moon was a ghostly galleon…” The author compared the moon to a sailing ship to put emphasis on the fact that the sky is so vast, just like a sea. The “ship” is sailing the “sea”. Stanza 2: “And he rode with a jeweled twinkle, his pistol butts a twinkle, his rapier butt a twinkle...”

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

In the Robert Frost poem ‘’The Road Not Taken’’ there is a pervasive and in many ways intrinsic sense of journey throughout. In such, the poem explores an aspect associated with human decision, or indecision, relative to the oxymoron, that choices with the least the difference should bear the most indifference, but realistically, carry the most difficulty. This is conveyed through the use of several pivotal techniques. Where the first such instance is the use of an extended metaphor, where the poem as a whole becomes a literary embodiment of something more, the journey of life. The second technique used is the writing style of first person. Where in using this, the reader can depict a clear train of thought from the walker and understand

No matter where we live, it is no wonder that different people experience different levels of achievements and relatively different kinds of evaluation by other people in every area in life. Most people want the evaluation towards themselves to be more favorable than the one towards others. In most cases, these values in the process of evaluation are viewed in a more honorable manner. On the contrary, these values can be hated by others, which defines as jealousy as a feeling of being fearful of being displaced by a rival. The book, “Three Day Road” by Joseph Boyden, manifests a great theme of jealousy between both protagonists, Xavier and Elijah, who play their roles as the snipers during the First World War. The story demonstrates a bitter act of jealousy by whom the spotlight shines upon; jealousy of fame. As many would agree, based on the evidence from the story, jealousy is a harmful act which has negative influences on human relationships, emotional stability, and human nature.

Also this quote clearly shows that Elijah has changed because he was never like this before the war. Other parts in the novel that show Elijah's insanity is when he obsessed with scalping the enemies that he killed, Xavier is disgusted by this practice that Elijah is doing and he knows that his best friend is not the same anymore. A big contribution to Elijah going insane is him being addicted to morphine, through morphine it makes Elijah have an utter disregard of life and the morphine makes him a reckless person. This shows how war impacts a person emotionally because Elijah is not the same

In Joseph Boyden’s novel “Three day road” he managed to show that nothing is spared from the path of destruction war can bring, How it can manage to leave Earth drowned in so much blood that it can grow “Flowers redder than blood everywhere.. They even grew out rotting corpses” (Boyden 76) This can mentally change a man, and this is the theme Boyden betrayed as Elijah, and Xavier slowly start to deteriorate over the course the 20 year war to end all wars. To start, it has been shown multiple times that elijah was raised in a residential school, and was revolved around the idea that he was imperfect since birth. Despite this ideology he later grew up to be a charismatic and funny person in regard to Xavier who was quiet and secluded.

Joseph Boyden uses the story of the windigo as both a literal and figurative image of discord in his novel Three Day Road. Among the Native people living in the Great Lakes Region of Canada, the windigo is an evil spirit associated with death, cannibalism, and greed. According to legend, a windigo is born when a human eats another to satiate their hunger, usually in the peak of winter when food was scarce. Once the windigo develops a taste for killing, the craving spirals into an obsession that can only be cured through death. The windigo represents loss of respect for life and destructive change, which manifests itself in the European settlers, soldiers, and Elijah.

Three Day Road shows that extreme situations can result in loss of humanity. This is shown through symbolism. It is also shown through motif. Lastly it is shown through imagery. Joseph Boyden showed these devices through the journey of Xavier, Elijah and Niska.

In the text Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden develops the idea of the characters restoring their honor and certainty after traumatic events. Showing how humans are capable of flaws without fault, as they move deeper into the darknesses that are haunting them. Explaining the character’s thoughts as they slip farther away from who they are. A fight to keep their honor while faced with addiction, keeping a relationship with family, friends and keeping the loyalty they owe others.

The book named Three Day Road by Canadian author Joseph Boyden depicts real Canadian historical events during the first World War. The story of war and violence is told through the eyes of Xavier, who is a Cree boy, and who volunteers for the war. Xavier’s very close Cree friend Elijah, who he has grown up with, has also volunteered for the war. A lot of the book is about their adventures as children and also about their circumstances during war as Cree men. The other parts of the book are told by Niska, Xavier’s aunt who had raised both Xavier and Elijah in the wilderness. Niska throughout the book talks about her past life as a windigo killer, and the hardships she experienced that in return, shaped her into the strong woman she has become.

One reason I liked this poem was because of the concept and the way it flowed together, I really enjoyed how she described things thoroughly and caused deep observations to be made. One of my favorite lines is “A man leaves the world and the streets he lived on grow a little shorter.” I hold this line to be special because it really stuck with me and opened my eyes somewhat.

Three Day Road takes place in 1919 after the first world war in northern Ontario. An Oji-Cree medicine woman named Niska, who has received the good news of the return of a family friend from war, decided to go and retrieve him from the train station. Yet instead of the expected meeting with Elijah, she finds herself face to face with her supposedly dead nephew Xavier Bird. Although he had survived through the war, it had cost him a leg. Realizing he was surviving off the military’s morphine and his disease was truly from the inside, Niska knew the last thing there was to keep him alive were the stories that kept her alive through the winters of her childhood. In return, Xavier decides to tell Niska stories of the war. He revealed that he and

The hardest part about growing up is realizing how difficult it is to live up to society’s expectations. Canadian society proclaims to “live your dreams”, but in reality, most are influentially prohibited to a role that the majority anticipates them to be at. Author Joseph Boyden conveys this issue through his literary novel, “Three Day Road.” Undoubtedly, the biggest factor that determines a person’s role is gender. During the early 1900s, this following scenario has generally been the case: father worked to support the family, while mother stayed at home to take care of the children. At that time however, women were treated with lower standards than men; they couldn’t vote, were paid significantly lower, and had little authority over the

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