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In my opinion the most important part in “Three Day Road”, written by Joseph Boyden, is when Elijah gets his first kill. Elijah’s first killing is an important part in the novel because it is the start of him becoming a different person. Elijah becomes deranged, and now Elijah and Xavier have both become more determined to kill the enemy, than before they got the thrill of killing and experiencing army life.
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“Thompson gives the nod and we set and throw the bombs in at the same time. They explode in a series of concussions. Men scream. Thompson takes Graves’s machine gun and crouches at the lip, sprays into the crater until all of the rounds are spent. I’m amazed at the little man’s actions. He kills with such ease. Let’s go, boys…
I replay it over and over in my head so that I don’t sleep all night, pulling the pin on my Mills bomb, throwing it and watching it arc until it disappears into the crater, the concussion and screams. I have killed someone now.” (75)
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The scene when Elijah gets his first kill connects with the rest of the book because this is when killing the enemy begins to intrigues him. Elijah is so fascinated by the thrill of killing the enemy, that he goes on his own little rampage. This part in the novel is when Elijah really takes in the military life and experience. He starts to bond with the men in his unit and the corporals. After Elijah gets his first kill he then realizes that he has taken someone’s life. It seems as though Elijah became more sympathetic when he was killing the enemy.
