Candy And Sugar Trench: Chapter Analysis

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The Canadians successfully took over the Candy and Sugar Trench using the creeping barrage method, while Elijah and Xavier took out the machine gunner. The cousins were sent behind lines during Christmas, where they met a group of French soldiers, whom advise Elijah to collect scalps of any Germans he kills. They moved to the Vimy Ridge before the New Year and continued “hunting” and raiding German trenches. This was when Elijah abused morphine and began to collect scalp of enemies to prove his kills to the French soldiers he met on Christmas. Chapter 19 explains how Niska brought four or five years old Xavier from the town back to the bush. We also learn that Niska’s mother had died of an illness soon after the French trapper incident. Her