Three Day Road Chapter Notes Essay

(E) The motif of the entire novel revolves around fire. Fire is used as a literal object as well as a

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.

Three Day Road is a novel which deals with some sensitive subjects in Canadian history while at the same time telling two stories at once. The first one being about Xavier and Elijah, two Cree hunters who joined the Royal Canadian Army together to fight in the Great War. While the second one focuses on Niska, an older Cree woman and the aunt of Xavier. Niska's story focuses on her life in Ontario and the struggles she faced growing up near Canadian settlers. World War 1 and the aboriginals of Canada are two extremely important aspects in regards to Canadian history. Both playing a significant role in allowing Canada to become the country it is today. Author Joseph Boyden presents an accurate view of Canadian history in regards to the life of

It is introduced in Niska’s first childhood story, in which Micah, a member of the tribe, is desecrated and eaten by his wife and baby under desperate situations. Micah’s wife describes the windigo as “a strange man-beast came out of the bush,” who “threatened to take and eat her child if the wife did not feed [the baby]”(Boyden 44). However, Micah’s wife is no longer reliable by that point because she too has turned windigo. Windigo represents the dark, venomous thoughts of Micah’s wife, which, by threatening her life and her child’s, persuades her to commit cannibalism. Micah’s wife struggles and attempts to fight against this thought by making a promise, that “if she and her baby survived the dark, she would feed the child well the next morning”(Boyden 41). This powerful presence eventually overcomes Micah’s wife as she drew her knife towards her husband. As a result of cannibalism, both Micah’s wife and her baby become windigo. This story about windigo lays the ground for plot development, and implicitly foreshadows the future events in the

Niska is the last Oji-Cree shaman/medicine woman living off the land in a bush community just outside of Moose Factory. Niska grew up with her sister Rabbit, her mother, and her father - the Chief of their community. Niska's father had the ability to divine events in the near future as well as communicate with the great spirits, abilities that he would later pass down onto her. In her childhood, Niska and Rabbit were taken to Residential School. Already too old for the school to effectively assimilate her, she acts out and is punished. Eventually, she was rescued by her mother, but they couldn’t get to Rabbit. When she was nearing her teen years, Niska's community was struck with famine. When food became too scarce, a woman from her community resorted to cannibalism.

First published in 1977, Robert Day’s The Last Cattle Drive was an instant bestseller and Book of the Month Club selection. Currently, the novel is a Western classic. This rough and boisterous novel of a cattle drive by two older cowboys, seeking to relive a bygone era and prove themselves superior to the trucking industry, backed by Opal, the wife of Spangler, and a green horn school teacher in the modern age of the planes, trains, and trucks revived the genre of the cowboy. Moreover, the novel added its own special twists of relationships between the characters and the people along the way which captured the imagination of its audience, especially the author of this paper. The novel is full of relatable rural small

Boyden: “I wanted her to be a strong woman who was doing this [being a

She inherits her father’s roles as a shaman and windigo killer after he is executed, which gives her status and responsibility in her community. Also, during her relatively young days, Niska meets a Frenchman with whom she begins a romantic and sexual relationship, assuming the role of his significant other until he reveals that he had no romantic feelings for her and that he was just manipulating her for sex and a feeling of dominance over her during the entirety of their relationship, showing that to him, she had the role of a simple sexual conquest whose spirit he symbolically attempted to steal.

Freedom Road is book written by the renowned novelist Howard Fast. Fast has written many novels including Citizen Tom Paine, Spartacus and April Morning. Fast’s career was a bit controversial because of his affiliation with the Communist Party USA and his time spent incarcerated because of this affiliation. This did not deter Fast from utilizing his creative abilities in writing novels. He wrote his most famous novel Spartacus while incarcerated. Howard Fast died on March12, 2003.

It is remarkable how differentiated works of literature can be so similar and yet so different, just by the way the authors choose to use select certain literary devices. Two different novels, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, display these characteristics because of the ways the authors institute such mechanisms. Brave New World describes a futuristic era where humans are genetically manufactured for a certain job predestined to them before they are artificially created, and where common human emotions, desires, wants, and needs have all been modified to support a deemed utopian society where everyone lives and works together in harmony. The Road describes a post-apocalyptic

Throughout human existence, mankind has had to overcome difficult obstacles in order to prosper. In Diane Glancy’s “Pushing the Bear”, the reader discovers how the Cherokee Indians overcome their hardships and flourish into a new, thriving community. In this novel, the audience observe how these Cherokee Indians outlast the harsh environment during the Indian Removal Act. Additionally, Glancy creates a human experience during the Trail of Tears; giving a different perspective of various characters. Through the eyes of characters such as Maritole and Knobowtee, the reader is able to sense the desperation that the Cherokee endured. The upheaval of being forcefully removed from the land stripped the Cherokee of their identity. This disruption left the Cherokee confused, causing frustration to arise because they were unable to live their familiar roles. Men were no longer able to farm. Women had a loss of property and wealth. The bear symbolizes these struggles throughout this novel. Maritole explains, “The bear had once been a person. But he was not conscious of the consciousness he was given. His darkness was greed and self-centeredness. It was part of myself, too. It was part of the human being” (183). In other words, the “bear” is the personal dilemma each character is put up against during this removal. Furthermore, each character has their own personal struggles to overcome; whether that be Knobowtee’s loss of masculinity or Maritole’s loss of family. These struggles,

Jack Kerouac is considered a legend in history as one of America's best and foremost Beat Generation authors. The term "Beat" or "Beatnic" refers to the spontaneous and wandering way of life for some people during the period of postwar America, that seemed to be induced by jazz and drug-induced visions. "On the Road" was one such experience of Beatnic lifestyle through the eyes and heart of Jack Kerouac. It was a time when America was rebuilding after WW I. Describing the complexity and prosperity of the postwar society was not Karouac's original intent. However, this book described it a way everyone could visualize. It contained examples and experiences of common people looking for new and exciting

     Jack Kerouac is the first to explore the world of the wandering hoboes in his novel, On the Road. He created a world that shows the lives and motivations of this culture he himself named the 'Beats.' Kerouac saw the beats as people who rebel against everything accepted to gain freedom and expression. Although he has been highly criticized for his lack of writing skills, he made a novel that is both realistic and enjoyable to read. He has a complete disregard for developed of plot or characters, yet his descriptions are incredible. Kerouac?s novel On the Road defined the post World War II generation known as the 'beats.'

Several years later there is a girl named Omakayas who is 8 years old and has parents a sister named Angeline and two brothers named Big Pinch and baby Neewo. As springtime is almost over Omakayas and her family will have to start building the summer birchbark house. After Omakayas is sent by her mom to get a pair of scissors from a women in town named Old Tallow who Omakayas has an unusual connection with. On her way back she encounters a two bear cubs and think they are orphans but once the mother bear comes out Omakayas is very scared and talks to the bear respectfully and then Omakayas eventually gets away from the bear. As the summer progresses Omakayas thinks about the encounter with the bears and Omakayas’s father Deydey finally comes home from his trip. As summer fades away and early signs of fall come in the family starts to move into the fall home in town. While moving in they are trying hard to harvest wild rice and other types of food. Meanwhile Omakayas talks to Nokomis. Nokomis tells her to

In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Nick, his father and uncle George who arrive to an Indian camp on an Island in Michigan. The Indians in the camp are not very privileged and they live in shanties. Nick, his father and uncle George are lead to a shanty were a young Indian woman is