Three Day Road

The novel Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden, is, in my opinion, an accurate representation of some of the many problems that First Nations service members faced during the first world war: First Nations soldiers battled not only the Triple Entente but also discrimination, bigotry, and closed-mindedness. Every soldier had to cope during, and after, their service with the psychological and physical traumas of war, isolation, guilt, and even shame. All those factors, coupled with the instinct survive, are enough to drive anyone to seek something to help them deal with or numb their pain, whether emotional or physical.

-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)

Similarly, Xavier and Elijah from Three Day Road go through a path of losing love and friends eventually turning to enemies. To begin, Xavier and Elijah war quickly noticed by other comrades because of their hunting skills. Xavier and Elijah grew up with a native background where Xavier doesn’t see killing as an ordinary thing to do. This is seen when Xavier is being shot at for the first time. He witnesses how close it was for him to be killed, responding, “The other side wants to kill me, and I’ve never even seen their faces” (Boyden, 33). Much like Paul, Xavier share many similarities to show guilt, shame and innocence. Xavier as well as Paul, thinking for all his comrades and there service for the war. Showing how his culture has

Many times the protagonists become the victims of the story and are eventually defeated. This is the case in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road. The protagonist, Xavier Bird, is the victim and is eventually defeated by the powers and doings of the people that he encounters during the war, and also by the uncontrollable forces that act upon him during the course of the war. Ultimately, these two factors overpower him and lead to his emotional defeat.

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.

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost describes the dilemma in decision making, generally in life each individual has countless decisions to make and those decisions lead to new challenges, dilemmas and opportunities. In Frost’s poem, the careful traveler observes the differences of each path, one is bent and covered in undergrowth (Frost 5) and the other is grassy and unworn (Frost 8). In the end he knows he can only choose one of the paths, after much mental debate he picks the road less traveled and is well aware that he will likely never return to experience the other. By examining Frost 's "The Road Not Taken," we get a deeper understanding of

Three Day Road is a book written by Joseph Boyden, Toronto, Penguin Canada 2005, 384 pages. Joseph’s maternal grandfather and his uncle both served in the First World War. The book is written about history of natives telling us about the hardships of the Frist World War. Joseph’s intent was to honor the Native soldiers who fought in the First World War because many of them did not even get noticed for their great bravery and skill. The War had its way on everyone changing people in the book Three Day Road you can see it between the friendship of Elijah and Xavier and how they both change throughout the story.

As a young woman, Janie had no complaints about her role in society and fit in as most young people do. Eventually, Janie made it her purpose to outgrow this mold, defying her societal role and fulfilling her dream of becoming the assertive woman she always wanted to be. To

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Why do you think McCarthy has chosen not to give his characters names? How do the generic labels of “the man” and “the boy” affect the way you /readers relate to them?

In general, windigo is an evil spirit that parents use it to scare their children. However, Boyden, in the novel, narrates stories of windigo ownership and windigo killing to show the authority system in the Cree tribe. For example, Niska narrates stories of her father who is a leader of the Cree community and windigo killer. Her father follows these windigo creatures and kills them violently. The police put her father in jail until he dies because of killing windigos.

The book The Road Cormac McCarthy creates a darkened mood when he puts this son and father into a destroyed world. McCarthy created this concept of a world to intensify the meaning of the piece all together. This darkness in the world creates to fear and the isolation for characters to realize that this is how life is from now on. The son in this novel comes to the realization of the world due to certain events within the novel that manipulation the view the son has on the world.

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.

puts her son’s comfort and life above all and swallows her pride. Furthermore, as a woman of the

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