Elijah's Time

        Elijah and X have been friends all during the novel and have been friends before the war and so on but something about being in the war has changed Elijah and it has not been for the best. Elijah had became something that X has never seen out of his friend before. The killing and war gives Elijah a rush of some sort that makes him want more to want more killing, want more dead, he wants the killing to be more brutal and physical, he wants it to be a surprise, and he wants people to know his name for people to be scared of the Canadian sniper. It does not help that he is addicted to morphine either taking it on a daily and before raids and any big killing. It gives him a great high and X does not like this about his friend. X has seen something very different from his friend, Elijah joking about the meat being German to going out on raids alone. Elijah scalps his victims and in one point of the novel X catches Elijah who has killed one solider and when Elijah gets up he has blood running down his face. I have come to think that Elijah has gone windigo and with his best friend being the last of the windigo killer I have a feeling that knowing this and the for shadowing of it makes me believe the end of the book more easier to think about and understand. There's hints throughout the novel more towards the end saying that Elijah is not human anymore that X says he is in a shadow a dark place and somewhere else that he cannot ever come from or out of. This is mainly because of the morphine but I also think that he is not human and windigo because he is not human anymore and he enjoys killing and being out alone even though he is thin he is still strong. In the end of the novel when X kills Elijah i believe that it is because he is windigo and that X feels like he is.