Beasts of No Nation post

This book is very horrific. I started reading it and was shocked at how stylistically it was written. The way he uses a broken english really conveys the characters message. It helps the reader to get into the mind set that this kid is in simply by the use of this langauge. Although it is a relatively short book it remains poignant. The saddest thing about Beasts of No Nation is that its real. There really are kids that go through these horrible things. A reader might think that it is fiction because of the horrible atrocities that Agu faces. But its real. Over the course of this class I have really began to think about the world in a different persepctive. I always realized that people live in poverty and have nothing. I knew that kids were starving and that countries were torn by war. But the books we have read this semester really brings the awarness to life. It gives it a face and name and partents. The real life account of what some people must endure is sure to make anyone stop and think. Satrappi brings the war in the middle east into a new light. Beasts of No Nation conveys the tragedies that occur in Africa daily. The Indian caste system is a real thing. I am suddently more aware of the human struggle because of these stories. I think that Beasts of No Nation in particular is more difficult because Agu is a child. Horror stories are always harder to bear when children are the victims. After researching Iweala's life and his reasons for writing I was skeptical. He comes from money from privilage. I almost wanted the author of this story to have gone through what Agu went through. His mother is the financial minister of a country in West Africa. He grew up in D.C. and graduated from Harvard. That, to me, screams spoiled rich kid. But at the same time to able to create something so dramatic and heartbreaking you must be in tune. He must be in tune with his roots, realizing that he was one step away from being Agu. In a way I think we all are. In that case I believe it is important to akknowlege human struggle and do something to stop it.