Wiebe, Joe. "Three-Day Road." Joe Wiebe: Writer, Editor, and Writing Instructor., Copyright ? Joe Wiebe. All rights reserved., 11 May 2005, www.joewiebe.com/books/three_day_road.htm. Accessed 16 July 2017.
- Joe states that Joseph Boyden still has a long way to go if he wants to be fairly compared to Findley - Joe says that there is no mystery as to who survives the war; Xavier
- Joe claims that Xavier is a new man after the war since he comes back deaf, without a leg, and addicted to morphine
- Joe argues that Boyden does not let the war story take over the book since he alternates chapters from the perspectives of Xavier and Niska
Pragmatic – “Three Day Road is that rarest of books that works on different levels for different readers.”
- “It can be enjoyed as a military history, a study of the tragedy of First Nations people in Canada, or simply as a strong literary novel set against the backdrop of World War One.”
Objective – “Three Day Road will undoubtedly be compared to Timothy Findley’s 1977 breakthrough, The Wars, which firmly established Findley as one of Canada’s leading literary voices.”
- “Elijah and Xavier, though best friends, are very different people.”
Expressive – “Boyden traces two separate Native bloodlines in his family’s distant past, Métis and Micmac, but is otherwise ‘mostly European.’”
- “One of the great strengths of this novel is that Boyden does not allow the war story to take over the book.”
Mimetic – “Because of its focus on Canadian soldiers fighting in World War One.”
- “The events of Three Day Road are inspired by the real-life exploits of Ojibwa Francis ‘Peggy’ Pegahmagabow who was the most decorated Native soldier in World War One.”
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