Three Day Road

In the book Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, I chose a quote which deals with the cruelness that happens today and also in the past. The quote is "When I was caught speaking my tounge, they'd force lye soap into my mouth and not give me anything else to eat for days". People across the world do do these kind of things to there own families and friends for different purposes. Some religions ban people from speaking other languages and just to speak there tounge for the rest of there lives, and if you were to disobey and to speak a different language then you would face the horrible consiquences. I found out some information of people getting whipped because they chose to be free and do something new, for this perticular reason it was for cutting his hair. People should be free and chose what they want to do with there life and dont let anyone control it. In the past people would usually get killed because of little reasons like cutting there hair, speaking of different language, or even showing your face. If it was me in someone elses shoes who was getting tortured, I wouldnt be able to take it because I cant take that kind of stuff. I would fight back and do something about it, and if I failed, I would know that I tried my best to fight for what is right.

Novel Research

The novel that I have started is called Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden. The setting is placed during World War I. It takes place in the wilderness in Northern Ontario and on the battle feilds of France and Belgium. World War I was a deadly and bloody battle. More than 70 million military personnel were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. The immidiate cause of the war was the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinend of Austria on June 28th 1914. The major battles of World War I are The Battle of Verdun (1916), The Battle of The Marne (1914,1918), The Battle of Ypres(1914,1915,1917), The Battle of Somme (1916), and finally The Battle of Cambrai (1917). Native People were the number one on the list for volunteering for the war.

1) "The Perils of Indifference" is like precariousness of callousness.


2) The ending of "The Lottery" is very shocking an unexpected. We as readers would think that the story was very unrealistic due to the fact of people killing there own for no reason what so ever, but if you think about this, this kind of stuff happens everyday in our world. For example the Rawanda genocide, the Hutu's and the Tootsies. These people started to kill there own and didnt stop. It turned in to a blood bath. "The Lottery tells us that they have the lottery ticket every year, and once person must die. The Holocaust people had been sent on a ship hoping to get off in Canada to be safe and away from the Nazis and when they got here we turned them down because we didnt want any part of it, we didnt care because it didnt have anything to do with us. That is the reason why people die everyday, because we dont pay enough attention to those who need our help. The world needs to change, otherwise we will all fall apart.


3) Elie Wiesel's speech " The Perils of Indifference" is very true and relates to "The Lottery" in many ways. The speech shows us how the world really is, and how much we do and care for things and people. One thing that stuck out to me was "It is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes." Those sentences stand out to me a lot because it is 100% true. We don't want anything to get in our ways. We think it is easier to avoid the things in the world like innocent children dieing in Africa, to keep our mind focused on ourselves. For example a commercial that I see a lot on TV has to due with African children dieing from diseases, so when this commercial comes on 50% of people will just change the channel because they don't want to see the kids like that. If people actually paid attention to the commercial and we did something about it, we would make CHANGE.