Three Day Road

Kyle McCool Summary #1 Section 02 Three Day Road Joeseph Doyden 2005 The Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden starts off in a town called Moose Factory in Canada shortly after WW1. “Auntie” is waiting for the arrival of her nephew, Xavier‘s, friend Elijah. However, she is shocked to find that it is her nephew who returns. She had received a letter that said her nephew had died in the field of battle and that Elijah was wounded, and only had one leg. When her nephew steps

The delicate balance between the Indigenous and settler populations has long been a subject of contention in Canadian society. The novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden is a historical fiction that begs whether and how groups can exist together while maintaining independent cultural identities. The narrative alternates between Niska’s storytelling and Xavier’s war experiences, serves to explore the themes of racism, assimilation, and the struggle to maintain Indigenous rights in the face of cultural

Assimilation is a frightening experience that Xavier from the novel ‘Three Day Road’ and Aila from the movie ‘Rhymes for Young Ghouls’ have witnessed through the white officers’ attempts to snatch their original identity from them and force the white way of living onto their daily life. However, the two fight the oppression and prevent this assimilation from taking their power by following the native traditions to strengthen their aboriginal identity. Identity shapes personality and can determine

The innocence of a human drastically transforms when they are placed in a war. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road shows the changing innocence of a man in war through the motif of consumption in the novel. This motif is seen consistently in the form of words such as eating and feeding. There are two clear perspectives shown from this, one that takes away innocence and one that gives or repairs innocence. Boyden uses the motif of consumption to display how the innocence of a person can be changed through

At the start of three day road we assume that Elijah and Xavier are very similar because they have such a close friendship and have the same background.. However when they are put into war we quickly realize that this is not the case. Even though they came from the same background they both experienced a very different childhood, which is lead to believe why they act very differently in the battlefield. Elijah was raised primarily in a residential school where he was subject to abuse. He was taught

often reflected on include "What did your childhood and background look like? Who influenced you the most? What are the events that shaped who you are?" These questions can be applied to the main character, Xavier from Joseph Boyden's novel "Three Day Road." As such, all of these questions are answered as Xavier experienced the process of death and rebirth through relationships with the nuns, Rabbit, Elijah, and Niska. Firstly, Xavier was raised by the nuns in a residential school due to being abandoned

overpower conscience, an individual begins to lose the grasp on their character. Assimilation is prevalent in Indigenous history. The wemistikoshiw in Canada, tried to rid the Indigenous of any sense of their culture, and this inhumanity is evident in Three Day Road. If integrity is strong, a person is able to withstand the effects of assimlation. However, if a person submits to the teachings and abuse, then one loses their identity. Assimilation targets an individual’s independence and intends to destroy

Lisa Tran Mrs. Kloostra NBE 3U1 2 May 2017 Elijah Weesageechak In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, Elijah Weesageechak and his best friend Xavier Bird are Cree soldiers fighting as snipers in World World One. Elijah becomes corrupted by the war, which leads to his own death by the end of the book. The war transforms Elijah into a person that Xavier no longer recognizes. He becomes insane. His transformation was due to the abuse of morphine, loss of his identity and his endless fame in

A memorable scene contributes to plot development while providing context to the novel. In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, the sweat lodge scene includes four rounds of healing in a womb-like structure, symbolizing Xavier's rebirth. Through these rounds, Xavier regains the four aspects of health: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. This pivotal moment displays Xavier’s fate, and Niska receives her vision of hope for the future. The impact of this scene lies in its power to share the historical

When men go off to war to fight for their country they come back different and they are not the same person they were before they left. In the novel "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden, it is evident that war has a change on soldiers, as it is seen through the two main characters Xavier and Elijah who go off to fight in World War I. War affects a soldier that goes off to fight in it tremendously. War impacts the emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being of a soldier that goes off to fight in it