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The Theme Of Jealoy In Three Day Road By Joseph Boyden

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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.

To begin with, the book, “Three Day Road”, displays a great theme of jealousy between Xavier and Elijah which creates a negative conflict to their friendship. “I reload smoothly, draw a bead once again at the space just below the corpse, then fire” – page 129. From this point forward, it is easily foreshadowing that the enemy German “phantom sniper” gets killed by Xavier’s sniper. As Elijah had so much pride in his sniper skills, Xavier ended killing the enemy phantom sniper, making Elijah feel

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