Stories bond us. Sooner or later, every story must be told. Storytelling can heal the storyteller and enrich the listener, as well as every untold story will scream its existence through our desires, actions, and dreams.
From the very beginning of the novel, Xavier, "the second to last in a long line of Windigo killers" (65) and Elijah, who “lives for what the day will bring” (52) are conflicted as a responsibility-driven man versus desire-driven man. A desire-driven man develops into a monster with some characteristics of a human, a Wendigo possessed a human being, a cruel, morphine-addled killer, while the responsibility driven man is damaged and troubled, but healed by Niska's love after a long-suffering. This essay will represent a thesis that Elijah's fall into disgrace is not conditioned only by desires (to overkill Peggy "the best hunter of us all" (208)) but a complex trauma affecting his conduct and emotions that neglect his own well-being. In deciding whether someone is responsible for some deed, we need to consider both fairness …show more content…
A just society must guarantee equality of liberty, equality of opportunity and must contain a fair redistributive mechanism of wealth or other valuable goods. In another hand, in unjust society preservation of sanity sometimes seems like an almost heroic deed. Elijah, ignored by wemistikoshiw as useless "Indian", killed by his people as the Wendigo, abandoned by writer as Macbeth from the bush was taken as the focal point of the essay, not just to tell a story about a troubled soul in troubled times but, to prove that collective responsibility is a prerequisite for individual responsibility. Also, when he went Windigo, it is not just the aftermath of his addiction to praise, morphine or warfare shell shock, it is the last step in human degradation that started in his childhood in residential
From the very beginning of the novel, Xavier, "the second to last in a long line of Windigo killers" (65) and Elijah, who “lives for what the day will bring” (52) are conflicted as a responsibility-driven man versus desire-driven man. A desire-driven man develops into a monster with some characteristics of a human, a Wendigo possessed a human being, a cruel, morphine-addled killer, while the responsibility driven man is damaged and troubled, but healed by Niska's love after a long-suffering. This essay will represent a thesis that Elijah's fall into disgrace is not conditioned only by desires (to overkill Peggy "the best hunter of us all" (208)) but a complex trauma affecting his conduct and emotions that neglect his own well-being. In deciding whether someone is responsible for some deed, we need to consider both fairness …show more content…
A just society must guarantee equality of liberty, equality of opportunity and must contain a fair redistributive mechanism of wealth or other valuable goods. In another hand, in unjust society preservation of sanity sometimes seems like an almost heroic deed. Elijah, ignored by wemistikoshiw as useless "Indian", killed by his people as the Wendigo, abandoned by writer as Macbeth from the bush was taken as the focal point of the essay, not just to tell a story about a troubled soul in troubled times but, to prove that collective responsibility is a prerequisite for individual responsibility. Also, when he went Windigo, it is not just the aftermath of his addiction to praise, morphine or warfare shell shock, it is the last step in human degradation that started in his childhood in residential