A Long Way Gone and Beast of No Nation are similar in the way that both of them display two young boys who become victims of their country's war. Ishmael and Agu are both normal and good kids before the war, but once it comes to their homeland, they become filled with propaganda, hate and passion to kill people which ultimately changes their personality, attitude, and gives them traumatic experiences that are simply too hard to forget. Ishmael and especially Agu encounter personality changes while serving their time fighting in the war. This is mainly due to the horrific events they see and commit on a daily basis. The first step that comes in their personality change is the first couple of deaths they see and then the time in which they
