Why Does It Have To Happen.

 Authors Note: I am writing this essay on theme to describe the theme of affects of war.

What would happen to you if your family was murdered because of war or if you lost everything because of it. Including your personality? In the book on the revolutionary war, Woods Runner the main character named Samuel loses his family to war, in the book MockingJay Katniss loses her house and her personality. Then in Divergent Beatrice loses multiple friends. War is a horrible thing that creates bad and good affects on both the government and the people.

War, not only does it affect you physically, but it tears away at you mentally on the inside.  In the book Woods Runner, 13 year old Samuel is the supplier for his family. He goes out into the woods to hunt one day and he comes back to find his friends and neighbors murdered by Indians and his parents gone. This would tear any kid apart for weeks. Samuel is only 13 and he has already been mentally affected by war. War affects everybody including government.

Now everyone has heard about the school shooting and everyone knows how bad it is. There is a little line that people have been talking about. It’s what a little boy said to someone. He asked if they’d ever seen someone die. Then they said “Yes sadly.” The little boy then looked up with terrified eyes and said “I saw my best friend die today.” In the book Divergent Beatrice see’s almost all of her best friends die. But not just her friends. Also her mom and dad, when your just becoming a adult you shouldn’t have to deal with stuff like that. No one should have to go through seeing close ones, loved ones, and just people in general fall down and have death take them away. War takes away a lot of stuff. For some people it takes away their sanity. For Beatrice it took away her loved ones.

Even though affects on government from war are usually bad, like debt. Some can be good like if  it’s a  civil war. The government changes for a good reason. In the book Mockingjay there is a big civil war and in the end it helps for the good. So affects on government aren’t always bad but they are also good sometimes.  Then a problem is after this then a big question is how do you rebuild you government? This is also an affect of war.

War is a horrible thing and the world would be a lot better without it but it still happens and it happens often and everywhere. In the big picture it usually has a good outcome but many people don’t understand the smaller pictures within the big picture. This terrible thing can also be called a tragedy because there are many tragedies from war. The government loses so much money, you experience death, and worst of all you lose friends and your loved ones. Even though the government loses money I think the worst part about war and having people die in it is knowing that they could have had a horrible and painful death. One thing is for sure though, war is horrible and affects two big things in our society, the government and the people.