In The Shadow Of War Analysis

A war has the power to affect the people who it is surround by its destruction, as well as those who fight in it. The two short stories, “In the Shadow of War” by Ben Okri, and “Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet” by Barry Hannah, give us an idea on how the war violence affects not only innocent people, but also soldiers in a tremendous way. Okri, narrates the story of a little boy named Omovo, living in time of war in his country Nigeria. Okri narrates, the life of those who live in the shadows of the war, and how parents by protecting their children are denying that the war is affecting them. In the other hand, Barry Hannah narrates how a war it is not like, what they make you see, that sometimes soldiers enroll because of the idea of becoming …show more content…
Soldiers sometimes joined the army, because other people join too and become famous, and their love for America or their country. Hannah narrates how some soldiers join the army because they want to be like somebody else “It made me love America to know he was in it, and I hadn 't loved anything for high three years then”(Hannah 309), we realize how every teen enroll in the army because they think it is something beautiful, that at the end they will become famous without realizing that decision will affect them in tremendous bad way. However, even though soldiers denies that killing of innocent people doesn’t affect them, deep inside them they are suffering, and feeling that they become monsters. For example, Hannah narrates how soldiers end up realizing they are persuading horror in a war instead of happiness, “ Here we shot each other up, all we had going was the pursuit of horror. I never had time to be but two things a giggler and a killer”(Hannah 312). We can realize that it doesn’t matter how soldiers try to deny the true meaning of war, by fighting and killing, they end up suffering because they realize that the only thing they are becoming is a monster by killing each