Three-Day Road Connections
Throughout the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, there have been many
relations between the stories
Niska tells Xavier, and the life Xavier led during the war.
The most vivid
connection between the two is in the chapters writing, feeding and the letter,
where Niska tells a story of reading the animal bone to Xavier. This later
connects to Xaviers life in the war because he is asked by Elijah to read the
German bone. In writing, Niska wants to send a letter to Xavier. The letter
isn’t translated well and the letter Xavier receives says that he must kill
Elijah. The poor transition from the native language to English can be related
to the assimilation of the Natives into the cruel war and the new lifestyle. The
part where Xavier is told to kill Elijah could represent the continuous separation
between the two characters.
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