Three Day Road

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

The development of characters are one of the main factors that determine if a story is good or bad. In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, many characters are shown to have developed both negatively and positively. Xavier Bird is one of the main characters that was portrayed in the novel. He is portrayed as a strong dynamic character throughout the book, however his development turned out negatively despite his strong character traits. Xavier develops negatively through his addiction to morphine due

The two page epigraph at the beginning of Three Day Road does more than simply introduce the story or show a flashback of an earlier time, but is a crucial part that allows readers to fully grasp knowledge of the character development that occurs throughout the novel. Although both Xavier and Elijah go through many rites of passage, Joseph Boyden clearly illustrates the transformation of Elijah through repeated situations, change in values and friendship. Elijah’s maturity is unmistakably shown throughout

In the novel Three Day Road, pain is overcome by the telling of stories. Stories of the past allow one to drift in their memories and relive the event, taking one's mind off of the pain that they feel. Xavier, who is in constant pain, is eased by Niska and her stories. Flashbacks enhance the reader's understanding by filling in the gaps. In the novel Three Day Road, Xavier experiences flashbacks which allow the reader to understand what he went through and what he has to do in order to survive. Also

Storytelling is a form of education as it teaches the listener about skills that they would need during their lifespan in a sense it would leave a form of a finger print. Boydens Through Black Spruce and Three Day Road use examples of storytelling to portray the characters struggles so the reader learns about the journey that Aboriginal people had to make to maintain their identity. Telling a story may often leave a mark on the person you may have connected with, and when that connection is made

is often influenced by many aspects of an individual’s life, but individuals must always return to their roots in order to stay true to their morality. This internal struggle over one’s identity is successfully illustrated in the characters of Three Day Road. In the novel, Joseph Boyden vividly recounts the journey of two Native Canadian soldiers, Xavier and Elijah, who struggle with identity loss from the adversity of the Great War. Through their harrowing experiences from the battlefield, they experience

Loss of Identity that Elijah Portrays in Three Day Road Change in character does not come out of nowhere, but from the factors that are surrounding and involving around them. In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, the antagonist, Elijah experiences changes while he sets off to war. He loses his Native identity and his friendship with Xavier. Thus, it’ll become evident that Elijah’s gradual loss of identity comes from a number of experiences. The changes are due to going to residential schools

Europeans sought to assimilate them via residential schools. In Three Day Road, traumatic experiences with the wemistikoshiw changes the characters affected. For Xavier and Niska, their residential school experiences were extremely traumatic. Trauma is one of the ways in which people’s selfhood changes. As a result of these changes, their individuality, or selfhood, changes as well. The circular narrative of Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road shows the transformative effects of trauma caused by the wemistikoshiw

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

addicted to and using it to cope which makes them stop thinking straight. People are worried about things that are not in their control such as their environment, culture, friends and family which can make people develop an addiction. In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, Elijah and Xavier turned to morphine when things got hard in the war. Both Elijah and Xavier were stressed with the pressures of the war. Many factors influenced Elijah and