Three Day Road

Now that I have finally finished my ISU, I can finally blog about my novel. The book I chose to read was Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road. To give a synopsis, Xavier and his childhood friend Elijah have both enlisted in World War I. They are both Cree Native Americans from the Hudson Bay area. Because of their heightened hunting senses, they become very skilled and famous snipers. This story is very interesting in the way that it is written. It starts of with Niska, Xavier's aunt, picking him up at the train station after he had been sent home. When she finds him, he is missing a leg, addicted to morphine and clearly dying. The first chapter is narrated by her, and the second chapter is narrated by Xavier and continues like this for most of the book. As a reader this is very entertaining because Xavier shares his stories of the war and Niska retells stories about Xavier's past. Ultimately the most entertaining part of the book was watching the character of Elijah and how he is transformed during the war and what happens to him at the end.