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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 indigenous 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 that his way of living was not right and he was forced to speak english and get rid of he indigenous background. He was sexually abused many times by a nun named Magdalene “who liked to bath him each week when he was a boy.” Elijah
Relationships have the ability to change a persons life. The relationships people have with others are the reason they became who they are as a person. In the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, the main character Henry faces many relationships which greatly impact his life. Henry's relationships with his father, his son, and Keiko has changed his life and made him become the person he is today.
In the chapter Silver Hair, Golden Years from the book "Somebody told me" by Rick Bragg, the characters had many similarities as well as many differences. The thing I found most common was the fact that most of the characters had a poverty filled childhood and found a way to make a living as they got older; however, some did not do as well as others.
In these five paragraphs I will be writing about the book “Hotel on the Corner of Sweet and Bitter” written by Jamie Ford and five quotation that important and made up the theme for me. This book gives a feel a lot of different emotions. The first quote was “‘You are Chinese aren’t you,Henry? That’s fine. Be who you are, she said, turning away, a look of disappointment in her eyes. “But I’m an American’’(p. 60). This quote is important because it shows how Keiko believes even if her parents are Japanese she feels more American then Japanese since she barely spoke Japanese.
Summer at Devon is easygoing as teachers mellow out and the rule enforcement dwindles, such carefree behavior represents childhood; Devon’s winter session is ultimately more strict and level, emphasizing the mood in adulthood. As the sun shines bright, tension unravels and everyone at Devon loosens up including the teachers as Gene explains on page 23, “Now on these clear June days in New Hampshire they appeared to uncoil, they seemed to believe that we were with them about half of the time, and only spent the other half trying to makes fools of them.” The summer days are filled with happy-go-lucky antics that seem to come with no serious consequence; exactly how a young child would spend everyday of his life as a youthful boy. There is no
Emotionally, the journey is a whirlwind for Xavier, it starts off with him, the usually optimistic one getting very scared for the first time, and doubting his decision made to fight in the war, when almost shot for the first time: “It is real. All of this is suddenly very real. The other side wants to kill me, and I’ve never even seen their faces” (33). Xavier and Elijah both portray these various roles based on their childhood upbringing. Xavier was brought up more spiritually, while Elijah was brought up scarred, to hide his emotions by pretending to be someone else. The key to Xavier’s sanity is to forget about the bad things in his life, and think of something more pleasant, this keeps him from dwelling on bad feelings, but keeps him from dealing with them. Earlier on in TDR, it talks about the first time they are allowed out of their trenches, Xavier tries to forget the things that have happened to him. His ways of coping were at least a little successful as he demonstrates, “Maybe Elijah is still over there, Auntie. Maybe the army has kept him there longer” (110). This is a quote from Xavier that is said after he has come back from the war. He was there with Elijah almost the whole time, so it would make sense that he would know what happened to him. However, Xavier has pushed these thoughts out of his mind
The central theme of the story is the age-old conflict of life and death. On a more personal level with First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the round character and protagonist of "The Things They Carried", it is a conflict of love, his antagonist and of war.
I fear many things in this place. But I do not want to fear my friend.” (Boyden 246) This is a quote from Xavier, explaining his growing fear of his dear friend. Elijahs soul is tarnished and lost, and as the drugs take over his mind and body he loses any love he had left in him. Elijah grows to love to kill and no longer sees these dead bodies as people, rather as a score he must keep. Elijah’s mind has always been pulled in different directions and he never had a chance to create a sense of self. His only friend was reserved and incapable of saving Elijah, but perhaps no one could. In the end of the novel, when Xavier has decided to kill Elijah. I feel as though Niska’s strength is now within Xavier. He has an epiphany and knows what he must do and that it is the only way Elijah can be stopped. Throughout the novel it appears at times that maybe Elijah is the more self assured and Xavier, with his depression and falling in love is the more lost one. I believe this to be wrong, as confused as Xavier might be with his sadness and emotions, he is aware that this is not how life ought to be. He sees the wrong and he feels deeply. Elijah's mind is overtaken with anger and darkness and he knows not how to escape the demons. So much so, he becomes the thing he fears. In this novel we are made to believe that these three people are separate entities. I believe these three people make a
They would always hunt and live together. Xavier had always looked upon Elijah, since he was always the center of attention of the wemistikoshiw (white men), with his smooth talk and stories. However, as the war progresses, Xavier notices a radical change in Elijah. Elijah slowly starts to drift away from their long friendship, now more interested in the world of the Europeans, rather than the Cree culture. Quote: “To make it all worse, Elijah’s taken to talking in an English accent in the last few days.
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