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Three-day road
By Colin Stitt

The novel of Three-Day Road was a very interesting and active book. I found that Joseph Boyden’s novel was a very articulate and great look into the action and terrible aspects of the first word war through the eyes of some Canadians. The way the characters are portrayed I thought were very well and gave a very realistic view into the First World War.

The scene where Xavier and Elijah are hunting in the field for moose and they are luring in the moose with smoke from a fire that brings them toward them. And then when they come within the perfect distance and striking distance for the kill. When they are finished hunting Elijah says “We are great hunters and best friends yes?” pg.82. I feel that scene and that sentence set the tempo for Elijah’s fate through the entire novel. From when the witness their first deaths to when they are going crazy with their snipers and killing German soldiers. The scenes with Elijah and Xavier felt a little fake during the entire novel, and I was wondering how long it would be until the friendship would go down the whole because of the circumstances. “You have gone mad.” Says Xavier pg.75
When the ending of the novel turns to Xavier ending Elijah’s life because he has been turned blind from the morphine and his selfish thoughts toward the war and the country he was fighting for. I thought the scene where Xavier kills Elijah by killing him with the but of his rifle by choking him to death in his sleep.

In conclusion this novel was a very influential book into the life of men in the First World War, and how it changed the life of two great men, and how they separated in their friendship over the course of the war, and how it ended to one of their deaths.