WHY? WHY? WHY?
- To learn about Canadian Culture and History
- To learn about the Effects of War
- Importance of Individual Family and Culture
- Don't do Drugs!
- Author uses powerful symbols that allows you to foreshadow and connect the dots in the story
- Above All : it is an engaging novel that blows away your mind
We Canadians may have created our current government and settled the land, however, we must not forget the Aboriginals who lived here first and their culture that we forcibly took from them. Through this, we can also learn the importance of one's own culture and family. During the war, we see Elijah, Grey Eyes and eventually Xavier all take morphine to escape from the reality of war. We see the effects of morphine may allow one to feel "good", but instead takes common sense and reality from their brain. This is easily applicable to our own life as we go through a period of exploring drugs as teenagers.