The Archetypal Three Day Road...

Character Archetypes 

Three Day Road contains many character Archetypes throughout the novel. Refer to the chart below.

Character	Archetypal Profile	Explanation	Proof From Text
Niska	Wise Wizard/Magician Hero	·         Has Gifts ·         Uses her past experiences to guide others ·         Frenchman suspiciously  commits suicide	“It did not take long for the spirits to come to me” (Boyden 175). (She can talk to spirits and ask things of them.) “I asked him to go out and find the source of my hurt and extinguish it” (Boyden 176). “He ran to the top storey of the hotel on main street and flung himself through the window” (Boyden 176). (She got her revenge on the Frenchman “defeating him” and becoming the hero of her own story.)
Xavier	Hero	·         Battles Enemy ·         Stands strong for what he believes in	“I stand up and then with a desperate scream join them on the charge at the parapet.”(Boyden 238) (This is a quote from Xavier in Battle against the Germans) “Elijah reaches for a broom in the corner, hands it to me, points to the nest. I refuse to take the broom glare back.”(Boyden 258) (This is showing how he is standing strong for what he believes in. He does not want to kill the birds because that goes against his morals and so he stands defiantly to protect those morals.)
Elijah	Fox	·         Pretends to be a hero but really is not. ·         Seems to be becoming a Wendigo	“I notice that he has left out how he cut the hair from their heads. I also notice that he doesn’t speak with his Englishman’s much now that he has discovered the morphine.” (He deceived the men with his English accent pretending he was one of them until the morphine made him show his true self. His transformation into a Wendigo is shown by how he scalps and kills his victims; he enjoys it.)
Germans	Evil Enemy	·         Try to kill Xavier (Hero)	“Germans leaning over and shooting point blank.”(236) “The dirty Huns killed him with gas” (Boyden 250). (Both these quotes prove how the Germans were on the other side of the war fighting against Xavier.)
The Frenchman	Evil Enemy/fox	·         Is  deceptive and dishonoured Niska	“You are nothing special, just another squaw whore. I took your power away in this place and sent it to burn in hell where it belongs” (Boyden 174). (He brings her into a church and has intercourse with her, tricking her that it was right when it was really quite the opposite.)

Archetypal Journey 

The main protagonist Xavier has begun the Archetypal journey of a hero. He begins with an odd childhood, growing up in a residential school. Then he is introduced to his aunt Niska who teaches him the old ways of the Oji-Cree. Niska acts as his mentor and guides him as he grows up teaching him useful skills such as how to hunt. After this he goes off to war, experiencing his first true sense of danger and putting his skills to the test. The format of Xavier life is the same as an archetypal hero, from this I can infer that in the last section of the novel he will have a big battle and then return home. In the basic archetypal story line all heroes must face off with their biggest enemy. Therefore it is logical to believe that Xavier will have to do the same.

Answer and Ask
Now that I have read further into my novel I can answer some of the questions that I had in the previous post.
Will Elijah stop taking morphine?
This is still unknown however it is growing more and more unlikely.
Does Elijah go insane?
In these middle chapters the morphine has drove him insane. He is also growing more and more fond of killing which is very unusual. He has also began to scalp people, which makes me think he may be transforming into a Wendigo.  
Will Xavier ever speak up?
He does not speak up using words but rather using actions when he proves his worth by shooting a duck that Elijah could not.
Will Xavier live?
This is still Unknown. 
Some new questions I have include...
Is Elijah a Wendigo?
Is Elijah the monster that Xavier must battle?

Works Cited

 Boyden, Joseph. Three-day Road: A Novel. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005. Print.

 Diana. Hero Battle. Digital image. Diana's Castle. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July 2016. 

PVNCCDSB. "Activity 4: Literary Theory." Elearning.  Web. 25 July 2016.