Three Day Road Analysis

‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ is a young adult novel written by John Marsden. This adventure/Action starts off with the main characters, Ellie (narrator), Lee, Robyn, Homer, Fi, Corrie and Kevin heading off into the bush for a camping trip, there are some signs of the coming conflict but they don’t pay much attention to them. After returning home from their trip they find the whole town taken hostage at the Showground. After a finding out as much information as possible their priorities rapidly change to staying alive. This essay is an in-depth analysis of how the main characters grow and change, how the setting impacts the story, symbols and their meaning, the main message of this novel and how the structure

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The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

The psychological effects, the mentality of fighting and killing another human, and the sheer decimation of human values is what makes war atrocious. War is not only fought on the battlefield though. This book also describes the feelings of a soldier fighting his own demons that war has brought on. The battle that the soldier has with himself, is almost if not more damaging than the physical battle of war. He will never forget his experience with battle, no matter how hard he tries the memories of artillery, blood, and death cannot be erased. “I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.” (Sledge). This struggle still happens to soldiers today. Sledge’s words of the struggles still captures the effects of warfare that lingers today. The other effects that war has on the men is the instability that surrounds them at every hour of the day. They are either engaged in battle having bullets and artillery fired at them, or waiting for battle just so they can be deposited back in the pressure cooker of survival. “Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.”

Copious bullets, like that of torrential downpour, reign over the battlefield; a setting in which man created through dispute, engulfs each and every individual caught within it. Some are immediately spun into a downward spiral, while with others, it hits them in the midst -- even if they have built an immunity to war’s ways. Two fictional characters, both sharing a similar atmosphere, experience the true affects to war in their own ways. Although war never changes, the individuals do, no matter the situation. This is exemplified through the fictional tales, told by Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper,” as well as Tim O’Brien’s “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy,” and as the main characters are to each their own story, they bear contradistinction to one another in the aspect of war, personality, and the emotional reactions to war.

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” ~ Albert Einstein. War can have drastic effects on everyone that encounters it’s destructive nature, although some might be affected differently than others, or more noticeably, everyone is still affected nonetheless.Both Elie Wiesel and Ishmael Beah survived devastating wars and were changed, both mentally and physically forever.

The protagonist of Three Day Road comes in the form of Xavier Bird, a taciturn and humble young Cree man who finds himself tossed into the chaos of the Great War; a global phenomenon that turned men into monsters and the land into a place suitable for no man. Through his devotion to his spirituality, refusal to conform to wemistikoshiw ways, and steadfast sense of morality, Xavier manages to maintain his identity throughout the novel.

-There is a focus on storytelling as a means of healing: "It is the story of my childhood. Now I tell it to you, Xavier, to keep you alive."(35)

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.

When most people of think of war, they generally think of the glorified aspects. Love and violence. Or perhaps their minds are drawn to an image of a soldier’s homecoming: A father embracing his son, crying tears of joy, all while the solider relays his experiences of the war among celebratory decorations. He is now considered a hero. But what difficulties has he faced to get there? This is the side of war that many of us don’t recognize. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, author and protagonist, Ishmael Beah, experiences civil war and its effects first hand when he is forced into becoming a child soldier in the poor third world country of Sierra Leone. As the novel progresses, Ishmael becomes increasingly addicted to drugs,

In the novel “Three Day Road”, two Cree Aboriginals, Elijah Weesageechak and Xavier Bird goes off to fight in World War I and becoming the most famous sniper team in the field. The author, Joseph Boyden writes about the dynamic changes in the states of Elijah Weesageechak and the corruption of war leading to his final moments. There are many types of pain that are induced in nature. However, there are only two categories that those pain fall into: Physical pain and emotional pain. With Elijah, war transform him into an apathetic killing machine.

As a sniper, you can either feel you are the predator or the prey. One mistake and you can give away your position and you would not make it home. In the book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, Xavier and Elijah find themselves as snipers in WW1. Xavier struggles emotionally with his role as a killer. This stress preys on his emotions and makes

1) The relationship between characters and their society is constant change. The society the characters live in is constantly changing due to the European presents in the country. This means the the characters must change and develop along side. This is seen in the novel when Xavier and Elijah joint the military and adapt to the European was of combat.

     It is always said that war changes people. In the short story 'The Red Convertible', Louise Erdrich uses Henry to show how it affects people. In this case, the effects are psychological. You can clearly see a difference between his personalities from before he goes to war compared to his personalities after returns home from the war. Before the war, he is a care-free soul who just likes to have fun. After the war, he is very quiet and defensive, always watching his back as if waiting for someone to strike.

War is never seen as something that can only be viewed from one particular point of view. Rather, there are many different points of view and perspectives people can take into thinking about war, as through the scope of mediation. Mediation is looking at certain things in particular ways through aspects like point of view, relation to the event, and translation during the author’s time. One example of looking through something with mediation is Magdeburg mayor Otto Guericke’s view accounting the sack of Magdeburg. Guericke represents a first hand perspective of what happened, because he was actually there and witnessed the destruction personally. Evidence of this is the way he describes destruction, by saying, “The soldiers began to beat and