Xavier had another dream but then awoke back to the battle field. When he stood up and was given a shovel by McCaan and he saw Sean Patrick on the sniper’s post and was shooting at steel plates that Grey Eyes is throwing in air. Xavier also noticed that McCaan didn’t give Elijah, he was thinking that Elijah was the favourite soldier in his platoon. Then he heard McCaan cried for help while getting the gauze and wrapping on Sean’s neck. McCaan did his best to save Sean but Sean died from the blood loss. After everything they have tried they buried Sean behind their camp lines and prayed for his soul. They considered Sean the talkative, kindest, funny soldier in the platoon. But now McCaan has ordered Elijah and Xavier to find and eliminate the Hun Phantom sniper for the death of their fellow soldier.
Three Day Road Chapter 9
In mid to late June Xavier’s platoon was moved somewhere near a town called White Horse Cellars. His C.O. keeps ordering him and Elijah to spot and eliminate German snipers so their platoons won’t have to lose more soldiers to their snipers which will be easier for them to advance and only have to worry about enemy machine guns, artillery, poison gas, and infantries. When the came back to the camp, Elijah, Xavier and another soldier from a different company have a sniping competition with only three shots. The competition was who can light the tip of the match with one shot and so they all took turns of shooting with only three shots. In the end Xavier came as the victor.
Three Day Road Chapter 8
Niska noticed that Xavier tried to talk to her but He thinks that Xavier went as far as he could when he is asleep. In Xavier’s dreams when he was a child he dreamt that he could speak English which made Niska smile. But in Niska’s past she was taken with seven other people to the Hudson’s Bay Company. She saw other children who were younger than fifteen years old. They were taken as workers for the Company. When she was there for several weeks, and was put into a cell with one window above her and was unable to reach it, Niska’s mother came and broke her out and brought home to her tribe.
Three Day Road Chapter 7
When Xavier has his flashback he was with his Auntie. She said “Are you alright nephew, should we stop and let you rest?”. His pain and coughing were getting worse so he tried to drink water but it did barely anything to reduce the pain and the coughing. Xavier didn’t want his Auntie to get really worried for him, but she already noticed that he is going to suffer even more without the morphine and eventually die. They both didn’t want to it to be a really big deal so they try to make it simple and happy and had to live with it.
Three Day Road Chapter 6
Xavier woke up from his dream, hearing all the footsteps, guns firing and artillery and grenades exploding, bodies flying. Xavier was informed that they were being attacked by the Huns, so he quickly came out of his hole and grabbed his rifle and started to fire at the Huns, but he couldn’t get a clear shot so he spotted for his platoon. But he realized that it was just a German raid and were long gone. Xavier and the rest of his platoon started repairing the trenches and took the wounded back behind their lines. He heard that the Huns have a new weapon, “Poison Gas” they called it. So Xavier, Elijah and the rest of the platoon were ordered to wear hooded gas masks with tubes for breathing. If some one says “GAS” they immediately put on their hooded gas masks and started fighting back. When they went back to fix the trenches they were ordered to wear it and work with it but it was difficult to work with it.
Three Days Road Chapter 5
Xavier was suddenly awoken by his Auntie’s paddle on the gunwale because he was tireless and didn’t get enough sleep because he is still afraid that his experience will haunt him and he was talking himself telling that his body still soar. When he close his eyes he remembers that Elijah and himself were paddling through the river. “Water came up last night and washed them away” means that they were hunting for a lynx in the forest after paddling in the canoe.
Be the Change paragraphs
The purpose of my “change” was to see and help people who doesn’t have a voice and try to make them heard in the outside world through my voice. The project was to seek ideas from others and try to be known by others through my voice and the way they have explained their ideas. It also talks/finding people who have great ideas in their heads but don’t really have a voice in the community or any area that they are in.
The process that I went through for the “Be The Change” Fair was a bit difficult because there are a lot of things and ways for me figure out. The obstacles and the problems that I encountered are that if I will get everythings organized and if I will have enough time to get everything straight, also if I would have all the materials that I needed and how people will react to the way I present my project and if they will like the idea and/or give any suggestions and ideas so I can try to get them known. Some of the alternations that I had to make are that ideas from others that I can actually help me improve my project and instead of a vast variation of ideas I had to narrow it down to a brainstorming because it can be easier for people to give or suggest any ideas.
My experience from the “Be The Change” Fair was fun because I got some ideas from the students who came to the fair. Their ideas will be used through poetry and through my words because some students don’t really have a voice in the community. Some students say “It’s a great idea that you are trying to get ideas from people who are shy, afraid, and don’t have a voice in the community and get them known through your own words so they can be heard”.
I felt that the process of the fair was excellent because there are a lot of students who had a lot of questions about the different projects that other MLP students and myslef had. The work invovled through the Fair was time comsuming because all the MLP students are going everywhere and trying to think of ideas on how they will present their project to the people who came to the Fair. The Fair itself was pretty fun and I had a good time in the Fair because it’s a good thing to express myself through my work and through my words because I am trying to get people known through my words and I am using their ideas to do it.
Overall to what I have said and wrote for this project it was a really good experience to have because I gain new ideas from other students that I have asked for ideas for “poetry topic suggestions” because I am trying to get better in poetry and try to be known through my words and through other people’s ideas. I also try to give them the credits because the ideas they gave me shall be heard and I shall remember them and their ideas. Up to this day I never forget how they gave ideas to me and I shall try to comemorate them through poetry and my words because they me be afraid of what others may say to them and I shall also never forget all the comments they gave, the way they said it, and how they shared their knowledge with me. My strategy was talking to the person privately or personnaly and open up and get comfortable being around me because they may feel awkward or shy if they would give me ideas out in the open.
Philosophies
“Life must go on even though it can drag you down be always keep your head high when it truly drags you down”
“A man who preserves life brings himself to enlightenment but a man who doesn’t preserve life can not be closer to enlightenment and he is not a man at all”
Here are two of my own quotes that took me a while so leave a comment about it. Also there will be more quotes posted when I have the chance to actually motivate some people who wants to be what ever they want to be in the future.
Compare and Contrast
The similarity between the stories “My Heart Soars” and “Talking to my Grand Father” are that they both talk about the resources, heritage, land, knowledge, respect, and peace. The differences between these two stories are that one is talking about the Europeans and diseases and the other is talking about observation and resources. But both lost lands, family, friends, and maybe more because of the over taking and consuming of the land. Both stories didn’t want to lose any people but wanted to learn new things from the Europeans.
When the Europeans came to the “Great Turtle” island they brought with them while sailing made a great impact to the First Nations. Both stories suffered plagues, death, sorrow and grief, yet they gain knowledge from the Europeans. The story “Talking to my Grand Father” lost almost all of their younger generation to the Europeans economies, social society, and many more.
The story “My Heart Soars” it also talks about strange travellers going on to their lands and infecting them with unknown diseases. But it also talks about how some of the Indians were angry of taking the strange travellers(Europeans) on to their land but the Indians chief didn’t want them to frighten the new travellers.
Overall both stories impacts the deaths of their lost comrades and fellow Indians just because of taking in the European travellers into their lands and they didn’t know that they will lose their own land, country, lives, culture and traditions to the Europeans. Even though the Europeans caused the deaths of many Indians on their own land the Europeans didn’t really worry about how they could help them because of the lack of medical knowledge.
Be the Change
Gandhi’s principle of non-violence has been praised and studed around the world because we all know that there are so many wars going on around the world right now. If we don’t apply the principle of non-violence on war itself, there will be an increasingly high casualties including the ones that has past. We see some civilians are ready to die because they either are fed up with war or just want to end their lives because they lost their friends, families, homes, etc.; but some are just brave to resist the brutalities and tortures that they will endure and others are just afraid that they will not have the courage of enduring the pain and suffering. But overall some turn the pain and suffering to anger and hatred and others just turn their pain and suffering to pity, peace, forgiving, and etc. Gandhi’s principles teaches us that if we endure the pain that others gives us it can bring us closer to enlightenment but we can only endure so much that our bodies just gives up but it strengthens our minds and spirituality. His ways also teaches that we have to cherish every memories and preserve life even if the things in life can be a pain in the behind yet we can prevail on the things we put our minds in to it. An example of pain and suffering that turns into anger is that people endured so much that they can’t take any more because they are fed up and lost everything. An example of pain and suffering to pity, peace, forgiving, and etc. is that even though you lost a love one or somebody else people show their sorrow, pity, forgiving and etc. to you because they know how much you cared for the person that you have lost and you wanted them to be back in your life because you feel lost without them in your life. Also Gandhi’s principle of non-violence it teaches us not to show fear to the people that are about to harm us but it also teaches us how we can preserve life and how to actually fight without fighting at all.
Kaj Elvambuena 