Thursday, December 3, 2015
Elijah, Grey Eyes, and the Medicine
In the book "Three Days Road' by Joseph Boyden, when Elijah enters the war he meets a fellow soldier that is called Grey Eyes. When Elijah and X first enter the war they stick to themselves but very soon Grey Eyes becomes the first one to really talk to Elijah. Grey Eyes and Elijah sit together to watch camp and start talking. Grey Eyes is obviously comfortable with Elijah because he tells him of the medicine that he uses. He explains to Elijah how the medicine helps and what it does for you. " Elijah is facinated by Grey Eyes use of it. He even goes so far as to watch him when he is in that place" (Pg 65) This is when Elijah is first interested in the morphine and could be some foreshadowing showing he could take some later. I think that Grey Eyes does see Elijah as a friend as he helped Elijah use the morphine the first time. I think that if ELijah wouldn't have became friends with Grey Eyes that he would have never had a chance to try the morphine and Grey Eyes would not be pressuring him into it.
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I agree that Grey Eyes may have a lot to do with the introduction to morphine to Elijah. And that the author included that to show the reader about the temptations of the drug in the boys. Im curious to know that if he had not met GRey Eyes whether or not he would have taken it, I personally think he would have as the hospital and medics were given the medication to wounded soldiers, and we already know that XAvier too is addicted to morphine which i thin k is a result of his leg getting blown off. So it would still be available and there whether or not Grey Eyes existed. I think Grey Eyes is a warning to the boys and since Xavier believes in signs that what can happen so he is a foreshadow of what happens when you are on morphine.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Grey Eyes may have a lot to do with the introduction to morphine to Elijah. And that the author included that to show the reader about the temptations of the drug in the boys. Im curious to know that if he had not met GRey Eyes whether or not he would have taken it, I personally think he would have as the hospital and medics were given the medication to wounded soldiers, and we already know that XAvier too is addicted to morphine which i thin k is a result of his leg getting blown off. So it would still be available and there whether or not Grey Eyes existed. I think Grey Eyes is a warning to the boys and since Xavier believes in signs that what can happen so he is a foreshadow of what happens when you are on morphine.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have said, Grey Eye's has a big role in Elijah's growing curiosity of morphine. If he and Elijah hadn't started to talk i believe there would be a completely different scenario in the end.
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