Wilson is alienated from the society, existing like a stranger within the Blaine Lake community. He misses his first opportunity to involve to the new world because he was rejected to enlist as a soldier due to “his weak lungs” (p.20). He cannot distinguish himself by through the World War. Another opportunity he gains is that he enters RNWMP, and become a recruit of the Mountie within the Blaine Lake community. While, he is diagnosed tuberculosis and must be physically separated because of “the wildly contagious nature of the disease” (p. 33). Tuberculosis, an incurable disease same as cancer in current for people in 1910s, once Wilson reported his illness, “he was discharged form the RNWMP and asked him to return in his uniform (p. 32).”