Three Day Road Sparknotes

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 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.

People will be motivated to make powerful decisions to become something greater and achieve greatness, However sometimes these decisions can put great amount of stress on the soul as well as mentally. Joseph Boyden delved into this idea in the book Three Day Road by using the protagonist, Xavier Bird, and his road of healing and acceptance. Joseph Boyden developed how hard it is to cope with guilt and live unrestrained, however can help those to accept their actions as well as to live with nothing to weigh them down.

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 context of a sweat lodge conjoined with displaying Xavier’s healing process and renewal.

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 off the steps she thinks he is a ghost until he falls to the ground, because he to is shocked for he had heard that she was dead. Then they start their journey down the river to their home in the bush. On this journey they both reminisce of the

-The central story is of Niska's early adolescence. It is the winter during which she enters puberty. Her Oji-Cree Anishnabe clan of roughly 30 people still live near Hudson's Bay, in the wilderness. The winter is a harsh one, with few animals to trap and eat. They are reluctantly forced to consume a young hibernating bear, who they regard as a spiritual brother (38). Niska's father, a medicine man and a spiritual leader of the clan, argues that they have no choice but to eat or starve (37). Nothing it should be added, is to be wasted.

The Story within the Car How does a car describe different characters? The novel Tobacco Road written by Erskine Caldwell was based on a poor white family that were farmers trying to get financially stable. The Lester family drove to Augusta in a new Ford car bought by Bessie and was destroyed throughout the story. In the novel Tobacco Road the author Caldwell uses symbolism of different car parts to describe each character personality and their purpose, which illustrates how mistreated people get eventually wear and tear down.

Introduction General Statement- While recovery may not be linear for everyone, many individuals will follow the same path of healing. In order to reach emotional recovery, an individual must first experience physical healing and begin spiritual healing, otherwise they may not have complete recovery. In Joseph Boyden’s novel Three Day Road, Niska must find ways to both start and finish Xaviers healing, otherwise risking him continuing down the path of trauma. Thesis Statement-

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.

A wide variety of new advanced and manufactured weapons altered the way soldiers regarded battle and the land where they would engage. Life on the front forced German soldiers to come face to face with petrifying weapons that can critically injured, or even kill, one within a matter of seconds. Words such as mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades, bombardment, barrage and curtain-fire

The novel I chose to read was “Three Day Road” by Joseph Boyden. When I finally finished the novel, I felt satisfied and thought the conclusion was appropriate and well though out. The idea to follow two storylines that relate to each other was an amazing idea by Boyden and allowed the story to cover material, not only from the Great War, but also other settings. Regardless of my small review, this novel is necessary to read because it brings to light certain subjects in our world that we seem to forget. Firstly, throughout the entirety of the novel we follow Aboriginal Canadians. Therefore, we’re allowed to see the Great War through their perspective and in turn, we see the discrimination they face. In addition, the novel involves two characters;

As written in Lyn Macdonald’s 1915: The Death of Innocence, Carey wrote, “There was a sudden hissing sound, and a bright crimson glare over the crater turned the whole scene red. As I looked I saw three or four distinct jets of flame, like a line of powerful fire hoses spraying firing instead of water, shoot across my trench. How long this lasted it is impossible to say, probably not more than a minute, but the effect was so stupefying that I was utterly unable for some moments to think correctly.” As just said, soldiers in the vicinity of an enemy flamethrower can be immobilized due to their unequal capabilities to strike fear. In the same surprise attack at Hooge, Michael Duffy from Firstworldwar.com states that “the effect of the dangerous nature of the surprise attack proved terrifying to the British opposition,” and even forced many of the British soldiers to fall back. Militarily speaking however, personal flamethrowers were not the most effective weapon. They were large, heavy, only held 3.5 gallons, and were very close-range weapons. Yet this range of only 20 yards was still enough to terrify the defending British and French troops.

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 the war. These are just some points that contribute to Elijah’s mentality.

It was 4 years of trench warfare. It was caused by the fail of the schlieffen plan. The trenchs are in between france and germany. In the western front there was stalemate and it didnt get better. They were filled with mud and rats the sizes of cats and not much food. It was ether you die or get something that will drive you crazy. The eastern front was more mobile than the western. Tanks help the soilders more than the trenches. In the western front men are writing letters back from there family say ‘ hi mom im still alive but it wont be long’. That soilder knew that in the conditions he was living and hiw the war was going he wasnt going to live for that long. In the eastern front some had nice meal and not mud. Sometimes they even had water

Summary of Story: In an isolated village controlled by higher power lives a twelve year-old girl named Claire. At the age of she is twelve she receives her assignment of birth mother. By fourteen, she has given birth to her first child which goes medically wrong, this causes her to lose her assignment as birth mother. Has to work at the Fish Hatchery. While she is working at the hatchery she finds out that she gave birth to a boy that she ends up falling in love with at the nursery.