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Three Day Road - Chapter Notes – 1 - 7
Chapter 1 – Returning (3 – 9) –Astrid, Hasaam, Vicky
Summary:
-Niska waits for Elijah, the friend of her “dead nephew” in a bush for three days.
-Niska feels very out of place in the town. When she goes to check if Elijah has arrived yet she waits until the crowd goes first to blend in.
-Niska goes to pick up Elijah, and sees that it’s Xavier, and both were misinformed that each other were dead.
-Xavier is very skinny, pale and is missing a leg. He no longer cares what the wemistikoshiw think about him. -Niska and xavier set up camp a few miles away from the town, where Xavier doesn't want to go in the tent. Niska realizes Xavier came back to die.
Quotation
“There was time before he left that he would have stared back, he and Elijah both, not intimated by them” pg.7
Niska is thinking this thought and this quotation is important because it plays a significant role in Xavier’s character development and how the war has changed him. The war has made Xavier less caring towards what others think about him and it has broken his spirit and made him weary and more introverted.
Questions
How does Xavier no longer feel the need to meet others peoples’ gazes when they stare at him?
Why does Xavier not want to go in the tent and sleep with his aunt but would rather stay outside?
Why were Niska and Xavier informed that each was dead?
Title - Returning
Xavier returns back home from the army. On a symbolic level, Xavier returns to die, he is returning back to his culture and returning back to a place where he can heal.
Chapter 2 – Arrival (10-24) – Gabe, Sally, Michael
Summary:
1. Xavier thinking about Elijah missing as his thoughts are sent back to the time of the war.
2. The Canadian company is shooting at their own troops and then realizes that. They spend the night in that town at an old farmhouse. On their way there Xavier sees his first dead body.
3. Xavier finds out that Grey Eyes is a
Chapter 1 – Returning (3 – 9) –Astrid, Hasaam, Vicky
Summary:
-Niska waits for Elijah, the friend of her “dead nephew” in a bush for three days.
-Niska feels very out of place in the town. When she goes to check if Elijah has arrived yet she waits until the crowd goes first to blend in.
-Niska goes to pick up Elijah, and sees that it’s Xavier, and both were misinformed that each other were dead.
-Xavier is very skinny, pale and is missing a leg. He no longer cares what the wemistikoshiw think about him. -Niska and xavier set up camp a few miles away from the town, where Xavier doesn't want to go in the tent. Niska realizes Xavier came back to die.
Quotation
“There was time before he left that he would have stared back, he and Elijah both, not intimated by them” pg.7
Niska is thinking this thought and this quotation is important because it plays a significant role in Xavier’s character development and how the war has changed him. The war has made Xavier less caring towards what others think about him and it has broken his spirit and made him weary and more introverted.
Questions
How does Xavier no longer feel the need to meet others peoples’ gazes when they stare at him?
Why does Xavier not want to go in the tent and sleep with his aunt but would rather stay outside?
Why were Niska and Xavier informed that each was dead?
Title - Returning
Xavier returns back home from the army. On a symbolic level, Xavier returns to die, he is returning back to his culture and returning back to a place where he can heal.
Chapter 2 – Arrival (10-24) – Gabe, Sally, Michael
Summary:
1. Xavier thinking about Elijah missing as his thoughts are sent back to the time of the war.
2. The Canadian company is shooting at their own troops and then realizes that. They spend the night in that town at an old farmhouse. On their way there Xavier sees his first dead body.
3. Xavier finds out that Grey Eyes is a