Blog#2 Beginning thoughts

Three Day Road starts off with a person who's called Auntie, the aunt of Elijah and Xavier who are Ojibwe Indigenous people that live in Northern Ontario, Canada.

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The base plot right now is that Elijah, and Xavier have been fighting World War I and that everyone thought  one another were dead for some unknown reason right now in the book... In current time though only Xavier and Auntie are alive Elijah is presumably dead from his injuries, but not for sure because Xavier lost Elijah which is also very strange and surely will be explained. When Xavier returned to his Auntie he is badly wounded and needs Morphine to keep going but only has enough for three days, so Auntie starts taking him home through the woods back to their home. As they are travelling too where Auntie is taking Xavier the story seems to have several flashbacks to before the war with mentions of Residential Schools or living in the wild, and even stories of their Native culture. There are also flashbacks too during the war with Elijah and Xavier fighting against the Germans with a Canadian Battalion which will be where we find out what has happened to Elijah. Then there is also current time where Auntie is taking Xavier home, and she tells her own stories. The Characters to me seem very believable in this to the point where I feel bad for their situation currently, because the history is so accurate of WWI and residential schools being a horrible tragedy. The story plot is very interesting to me as well, because it has me thinking why isn't Xavier in a hospital receiving medical help instead of being sent home on a train? Why would there be letters sent to Auntie saying Xavier is dead when Elijah is the one missing, and Xavier being told that his Auntie is dead? These are all things that are keeping me interested in the book as well as the racism coming from some of the people in Xavier's battalion towards him, because he doesn't speak English to well like Elijah does. In some ways I think Elijah is becoming more British than he is Native which Xavier keeps pointing out that something is changing with Elijah.