Rabbit Character Analysis in Three Day Road

Niska’s sister and Xavier’s mother. Rabbit goes to the residential school in Moose Factory and is transformed into Anne. As Anne, Rabbit rejects her Native identity and embraces wemistikoshiw (European) culture. She begins to drink wemistikoshiw rum and abandons Xavier to the nuns at the residential school when he is just a child.

Rabbit Character Timeline in Three Day Road

The timeline below shows where the character Rabbit appears in Three Day Road. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

Eight of them arrived in Moose Factory, including Niska, her mother, and Rabbit. “So ye all come for handouts now, do ye?” the man at the Company store... (full context)

Rabbit wanted to go to school with the other children on the reserve, but Niska refused.... (full context)

...lynx” and tried to run, but she was overpowered. At the school, the nuns kept Rabbit, now called Anne, away from Niska. They washed Niska’s mouth out with lye soap if... (full context)

...throw her the bedsheet and pulled her up out the small window. “Did you see Rabbit?” Niska’s mother asked quickly. “Will she come with us?” “She is called Anne now,” Niska... (full context)

...Elijah were boys. Xavier lived on the reserve for a short time after his mother, Rabbit, gave him up, and he met Elijah there. Elijah taught Xavier some English, and Xavier... (full context)

...and walked out the door. Without thinking, Niska walked toward the school and church where Rabbit had been taken. The trapper walked up behind her quietly. “This is a good place,... (full context)

...in tree so “her ahcahk was free.” Afterward, Niska lived alone and heard rumors that Rabbit “was a drinker of wemistikoshiw rum and had abandoned her only son to be raised... (full context)