I need to make a blog post of 1/3 of the novel "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden using a Formalist Literary Theory response.

I need to make a blog post of 1/3 of the novel "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden using a Formalist Literary Theory response. I'm just in the process of gathering my ideas and about to start formulating my response but I'm confused about what I should use from the book and how to formulate a Formalist Literary Theory response.