In the book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, Elijah and Xavier's relationship changed drastically. When xavier and elijah went to war that affected their friendship a lot because they started out as best friends when they got enlisted into war but before they even reached england their differences started to show. Elijah was capable to talk himself out of situations and Xavier liked to be by himself. They both had to undergo many things together such as surviving, killing and staying together. Throughout the book they started to distance from each other and started to become enemies. Many things that happened throughout the book factored into how their friendship changed.
Elijah and xaviers friendship in the beginning of the book was very …show more content…
Xavier started to get jealous of elijah because of how good he got at killing and all the people that he was killing. Although, Xavier killed a talented german sniper and got a higher status and a mauser rifle. The jealousy and the amount of deaths cause elijah emotional distress and lead him to kill elijah. Xavier felt that if he didn’t kill elijah, that elijah would kill him.
Elijah and Xavier's relationship also was affected by jealousy. Xavier was jealous of Elijah because everyone liked Elijah more than Xavier because Xavier was the more talkative and outgoing friend and Xavier knew that he was the better soldier than his friend. Xavier also got very jealous when the soldiers and officers congratulated elijah with medals and awards because they weren’t acknowledging Xavier and his achievements.
Elijah and Xavier’s relationship was impacted aswell by elijah’s addiction to morphine. Elijah became depression throughout war, “All winter I have suffered inexplicable suffering with a miserable thing called depression” (Boyden 233).
All of the things that I talked about in the paragraphs affected how their friendship changed. I believe that the moral of this novel is that friendships can’t always overcome tough situations and that sometimes things end badly because of certain situations. For this book that certain situation would be
Elijah and xaviers friendship in the beginning of the book was very …show more content…
Xavier started to get jealous of elijah because of how good he got at killing and all the people that he was killing. Although, Xavier killed a talented german sniper and got a higher status and a mauser rifle. The jealousy and the amount of deaths cause elijah emotional distress and lead him to kill elijah. Xavier felt that if he didn’t kill elijah, that elijah would kill him.
Elijah and Xavier's relationship also was affected by jealousy. Xavier was jealous of Elijah because everyone liked Elijah more than Xavier because Xavier was the more talkative and outgoing friend and Xavier knew that he was the better soldier than his friend. Xavier also got very jealous when the soldiers and officers congratulated elijah with medals and awards because they weren’t acknowledging Xavier and his achievements.
Elijah and Xavier’s relationship was impacted aswell by elijah’s addiction to morphine. Elijah became depression throughout war, “All winter I have suffered inexplicable suffering with a miserable thing called depression” (Boyden 233).
All of the things that I talked about in the paragraphs affected how their friendship changed. I believe that the moral of this novel is that friendships can’t always overcome tough situations and that sometimes things end badly because of certain situations. For this book that certain situation would be