Right What Was Wrong

As I read through the book, I constantly predicted the ending and the result was the same through every experience of X's. My one thought that made the most sense about how the story would end was with Xavier's death. His addiction was killing him from the inside and his memories were torturing him to the point where he wished death would come save him. It seemed at the end of the three day road that Niska would have to put her nephew's body in the trees to let his spirit be guided from his body. But the moment he ran out of morphine I thought he was gone. I was extremely surprised when the heat of the steam tent was the thing that saved his life. But, as i considered why, I realized it actually made more sense than at first. Xavier was going through withdrawls and the shear heat helped his system flush out any of the drug that was left inside.(381) By doing this, the stages of withdrawl from morphine was easier than sitting and waiting for your body to do it yourself. Xavier himself surprised me with how much will to live he had left inside. Falling into addiction and losing his leg wrapped up with PTSD could make anyone want to die. By him living makes me think he never wanted to die, he just thought that death was going to come and there was no way to stop it. In Elijah and Xavier's friendship, Elijah was always the leader but X was the strong minded, heart full of courage and a respect for life. He was the better person in my mind.