Friday, November 27, 2015
The high life.
In the story we meet Xavier, he was in a war incident where his leg was blown off. Now Xavier has a problem, he is stoned on morphine. That's right, he's high on morphine. The morphine contributes as a painkiller. Morphine is a drug deprived of opium that was first marketed in the 1820s. The problem with morphine is that is highly addictive like heroin. Xavier is definitely a different person after the war, he seems to be suffering from some PTSD. The incident where his leg was blown off would have been super painful. Back during WWI there wouldn't have been much for medicine besides morphine. Xavier hated morphine, he thought the needle as being a demon. He watched another soldier use morphine and fall limp into a braindead trance. When Xavier comes home from war he continuously uses morphine. Xavier seems to feel remorse for what he is doing, he knows his aunt sees him doing it. Every time he uses the morphine he goes into a memory from the war. These flashbacks are very interesting and the go deep into his mind and what he is feeling. It is hard to tell what is going through the mind of someone who is on drugs. Are all these flashbacks hallucinations? His condition also brings around the question that will he kick this addiction? It is sad to see all that Xavier has gone through, will he return to sobriety?
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I believe that we will not return to sobriety. The events of the war took to much of a toll on Xavier. I believe that whatever happened to Elijah is the main cause for his use of morphine along with the injuries that he sustained in the war and in his time fighting in World War I
ReplyDeleteI believe that we will not return to sobriety. The events of the war took to much of a toll on Xavier. I believe that whatever happened to Elijah is the main cause for his use of morphine along with the injuries that he sustained in the war and in his time fighting in World War I
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with Kane, I do not believe Xavier will rebound from his struggles with morphine. Once soldiers see the horrible atrocities of war nothing can get those memories out of their minds, except for a substance. Many soldiers, especially in earlier times used substances as a crutch to deal with the memories burnt into their minds. For this reason, I do not believe Xavier will rebound from his addiction.
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