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In The Three Day Road Two Brothers And an Aunt Go on a journey through the Great War.
"Dreams of this bear-man waking from his death slumber , bending up to untie his feet and then jumping to the floor, eyes bulging from his fleshy skull, pacing two legs between the bodies of my sleeping family, sinew of of white muscle glistening from the moonlight as he searched for his fur" (pg.38). This quote represents the human imagination when it succumbs to paranoia which lays in the human psyche. Everyone gets paranoid, its a normal occurance and it happens at different levels in different situations for different reasons. Sometimes it comes from a past experience when reminded of it and other times its sibliminal from a hidden fear. In situations of war and famine paranoia is more prominent than under circumstances like living in a civilized modern day city in Canada.

Three Day Road....

Three Day Road is a book written By Joseph Boyden. Joseph Boyden was born in 1966 and grew up in Willowdale Ontario, his father Raymond Wilfred Boyden was awarded the distinguished service order and was the most highly decorated medical officer of world war II. Boyden just so happens to be of Irish, Scottish and Me'tis heritage, so in "The Three Day Road" he wrote from the voice of a first nations person. The book takes place in world war I about to Cree soldiers serving in the canadian military, it was inspired by the first legendary world war sniper Francis Pegahmagabow. Joseph studied creative writting at York University and University of Orleans, all of his books have won an award. "Three Day Road" won Amazonbooks/First Novel Award (canada) and Roger writer's trust fiction prize, "Through Black Spruce" won the 2008 Scotiabank Griller Prize.

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School (free write with substitute, re-done)

School. A lot of kids love it, a lot of kids like it, and a lot of kids don't. One of the biggest things in person's life is when they went through education. The years they spent from kindergarten to grade 12, the time of graduation. This year is my graduation which im totally stoked for considering it will be one of the most amazing moments in my entire life and one of the most memorable. It really has been a hell of a ride over the years, especially in high school. You go through things you love, you hate and things you wont ever forget. That especially applies for the people you meet, some you will drift away from. Mean while others you will know till the very end, you never know. All I know for sure though is that this year.....Is my year.

The Un-calculated Risk Of Not Caring

The Un-calculated Risk Of Not Caring


Many of the events in the story "The Lottery" relate to the certain significant events in the history of mankind. The stoning of Mrs.Hutchinson is much like the St.Louis back in world war two that got turned down by the U.S , the ship was carrying thousands of Jews all trying to escape the Holocaust. No one tried to save Mrs. Hutchinson much like how no one made an effort to save the St.Louis' passengers. The Second world war could have been prevented and millions of lives saved if only humanity cared sooner. Mankind is sad enough that it does not learn from the mistakes of the past, in the 1990's there was the Rwandan genocide, not just internationally people did not care but also in civil situations. Now humanity has learned to care but not enough, efforts are made but aren't given 100%. Even today indifference exists, in places like Darfur.

Elie Wiesel's speech pertains to "The Lottery" in a way which he warns human beings to care yet no one seems to, much like how in "the lottery" subtle warnings are given yet no one heeds them. People that seem "normal" and just plain ordinary incapable of horrific acts deep down tend to be blood thirsty and heartless when it comes to survival of one's self then that dark malicious evil side of the human psyche comes out.