![]() ![]() ![]() Elijah’s decision to not speak Cree when around his peers was his attempt to blend in with the rest of his former soldiers.ĭitching his original Cree accent and adopting a British one was Elijah first step to creating his new persona. “Dear Henry, would you be a kind chap and make me a cup of tea? ” (144). To hide that he was an Aboriginal man, Elijah chose to adopt a British accent and speaking style when among the other soldiers. ![]() Elijah had initially been able to speak English so he could communicate with the white soldiers, for he was raised by nuns in a residential school. Once Elijah joined the Canadian army, he immediately did what ever he could in order to blend in with the other soldiers. Further more, the loss of identity, his desire to become a war hero, and the use of morphine to escape reality caused Elijah Weesageechak to become a motionless killer. That being said, World War I, Aboriginal sniper Elijah Weesageechak becomes mentally and physically corrupted by the war, which results to his inevitable death. Joseph Boyden illustrates the idea that war may impact someone to become something they initially weren’t. Arthur Joseph Boyden represents Carl Jung’s idea that humans often create a persona in order to be perceived by society in a certain way through the journey of the main character in the novel ‘Three Day Road’. ![]()
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