In Josephs Boyden’s book Three Day Road‚ I got to read about the transformation of three main characters; Xavier‚ Elijah and Niska. As individuals we see these three go through change because of the events they experience in WWI. Elijah deals with the struggle of keeping in touch with his native background. Xavier challenges the urge to give into the morphine‚ along with the peer pressure to be someone he’s not by the people he’s surrounded by. Xavier the main character in Three Day road goes
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Elijah met the founder and in 1931 he joined the nation and changed his name to Elijah Muhhamad. He traveled around preaching against white people‚ which gave him an enormous black following. One ordinary day he gets a letter from Malcolm from prison and he gives a welcome note and grants him 5$ enclosed in the envelope. Once Malcolm got out of prison‚ he started spewing Elijah’s teachings everywhere he could and eventually became an enormous sensation that everyone loved. Elijah had a hefty
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guests‚ brothers and sisters‚ friends‚ and even our enemies. As a follower and minister of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad‚ who is the Messenger of Allah to the American so-called Negro‚ I am very happy to accept Dr. Powell’s invitation to be here this evening at the Abyssinian Baptist Church and to express or at least to try to
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that Elijah didn’t have. Morphine was first isolated in 1804 and has been used in every world war so far as an active or chronic pain reliever for the smallest to the biggest of injuries but the one thing about morphine is that it is highly addictive and can cause psychological dependence‚ withdrawal and you can overdose from asphyxia‚ which is death from lack of oxygen or choking. It also has a physical effect of lowering reaction times and impaired thought now in “three day road Elijah had gotten
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rewards followers based on their performance. In this movie‚ it is evident that Elijah Muhammad followed this approach by setting a goal for the black Americans who are his followers to fight for a separate state. He sensed his objective can be attained by influencing all the black Americans to embrace the religion of Islam and to be aware of “All white men are evil’ and all ‘blacks’ are supreme (Barnett‚ 2006). Elijah Muhammad chooses Malcolm X as his follower because he thinks Malcolm has got the
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Joseph Bodyen’s‚ Three Day Road is about survival and difficulties of an Indian soldier on WW1 after returning home. In one situation when Elijah explaining Xavier about their returning home he says‚ “This is war. This is not home. What’s mad is them putting us in trenches to begin with. The madness is to tell us to kill and to award those of us who do it well” (Bodyen 322). The line shows that with the orders from their superiors the soldiers went into the battlefield and killed innocent people
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How did Malcolm’s own personal views change and evolve? Malcolm X’s personal views changed over time because of the certain things that other races did and didn’t do‚ to the point of him wanting complete separation from them. Malcolm used to want to be involved with whites a lot to try and get closer to their population‚ but during that time after he went to prison he learned some things that changed the way he thought completely. Some of the things he learned were primarily due to the dictionary
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Prophets are called to speak God’s word. A critical piece of their service‚ which we need to initiate testing of prophecy‚ just as Elijah did will exposing false prophets. Elijah had several commendable traits‚ he was still subject to human frailty. This was shown when Elijah ran for his life after receiving the threatening message from Jezebel. Supplication to God was key to the prophetic service. It fell into place naturally for the prophets and was the lifeline of their service. Prayer to God
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Quotes 1. “Before leaving a corpse‚ Elijah tells me he has taken to opening each man’s eyes and staring into them‚ then closing them with his calloused right hand‚ letting a strange spark of warmth accumulate deep in his gut each time that he does it‚ noting the colour of the iris knowing that he‚ Elijah‚ is the last thing that each will see before being placed into the cold mud and water here. Before they go to their place.” (pg 200) 2. “He walks back to the dugout‚ his anger watered down
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upbringing‚ it brings back old memories of when he and Elijah were young. These memories help pull Xavier through his injury‚ addiction‚ and memories he just cannot forget. Niska ultimately gains confidence in telling her nephew these
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