Elijahs final moments

I chose to do question number 1. I chose the passage of Elijahs death on page 370. I press down  harder. Elijahs eyes shine with tears. His face grows a dark red. He tries to whisper words to me but i know that I cannot allow Elijah to speak them. I must finish this. I have become what you are, Niska. There is much more of this passage that I would like to write but it is long. One of the key themes in the story would definitely be death. Throughout the whole story we watched the Wingegos die, the french man die, and now Elijah. The relevance of all the deaths in the story is that they were caused by insanity. These deaths were not accidents, they had much meaning to the story. The significance of Elijahs death was that he was Xaviers best friend. Also the reader got to know him throughout the story because he was always there. It is very sad that Elijah had to be killed, but he was getting out of control.