Blog #7 Overall Thoughts

I thought that Three Day Road was a really well done book it address' topics that haven't been covered by many books well. The issue that the Aboriginal people who fought for Canada in World War I should get a lot more recognition for what they sacrificed for a country that wasn't respectful towards them.

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The book showed the discrimination that would've been thrown at them in those times by generals and even their fellow soldiers. When Niska was going into town to the store she was discriminated against heavily by not being able to enter the store. People knew that Niska lived in the woods like her ancestors and she looked like a "witch" someone in the book said which is very unfair and disrespectful. Boyden didn't let it end at that though after the store owner got to know Niska he actually liked her and helped her out with writing a letter to her nephew Xavier and Elijah. The store owner changing his opinion about letting her in the store is a great example of the powerful symbolism in this book how if people were just informed about Aboriginal culture relations between Aboriginal people and the wemistikoshiw can change like they are now currently.  Residential schools is also a big issue brought up in Three Day Road. Residential schooling and nuns teaching the Aboriginal children was there to symbolize sickness, because Elijah's English knowledge is what slowly got a hold of him in the army and changed him along with morphine into a wendigo. These symbols, and issues are what makes Three Day Road such a important read as it opens your eyes just a little more or maybe a lot more into the current relationship problems with Aboriginal people today.

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Some things I didnt like about the book in my personal opinion was the Wendigo I'm not to big of a fan of cannibalism it's a little hard to read especially for some people. So if you're one of those people who don't like intense violence and really descriptive bloody scenes then it may not be the best read for you, but I have no problem reading it I would definitely recommend trying to push through those scenes. This book I think is an all about good read for anyone really who doesn't mind violence and the couple smut pages in the book. Joseph Boyden did a really good job brushing up on his history, and I can't say from an Aboriginal background perspective, but I've read that most of it is pretty accurate about the Native culture. I would recommend this book for ages 17+, because of the intense scenes and sexual parts of the book, but for anyone who's mature enough I think it brings up Aboriginal relations from back then and now really well which is important to understand.  

A Well Done Three Day Road English Project Trailer: