All Wars Are Tragic in Nature

War is most certainly a disastrous affair and is indeed heartbreakingly tragic in nature. The negative outcomes and consequences are traumatic for most and profitable for less than a few. Wars can be either international or civil. But no matter how long or short lived it is; it is always abominable and distressing. This essay will outline four main factors on why war is benevolent in nature, these factors are; the impact war has on civilians, victimisation and confinement of freedom for children, as well as landmines and it disastrous outcomes and also the effects on women psychologically and emotionally from the results of war. Firstly, war has dangerous and traumatic effects upon the civilians of the war torn country or state. Innocent people living in war torn countries are always in unrelenting oppression and abysmal poverty. They are regularly living in constant fear of air raids, bombings, and guerrilla attacks on the towns and cities, and dying in some of the worst ways. The obstacles are sometimes too much for one person and it slowly drives them to insanity. For example in the fiction text Parvanas Journey when the main character came across the wailing women in the middle of the desert Parvana remembered her father telling her that if she came across one like this women she should keep walking. This woman could not handle the effects of war on her country like grief and she eventually drowned in it. It turns young and old people (like Kak) into greedy and desperate people, who are always looking for more money as a solution for their problems. Problems like hunger, medical attention and shelter, or just more money. War is sometimes too much for one person to handle and (like Nafaass sister) they commit suicide. This experience reflects on some of the hardships of war, it shows how it affects the people in the country and, around it in the world. Secondly another aspect of war has do with the trauma young victims endure; children are always targeted as victims or as soldiers (someone they expect to fight back so they put them down before they can work up the courage to do anything). The victimisation and confinement of children is an unnaturally cruel and inhumane factor of war. The enemy does this to put down the future generation before they can get any stronger. The opposition will strike out at anyone and everyone to get what previously mentioned individual or party wants. For example, in the film text Kandahar, the girls school was shut down because of the fact that the Taliban did not want young girls to have basic rights such as to attain an education. On their last day, the girls were taught that if they ever saw a doll they should never touch it, or even nudge it, because it would surely trigger a bomb. They were taught to turn and walk, never go near that area again. This is because soldiers have been there and they will most likely come back. This point communicates to the audience that our (the childrens) freedom can be a temporary thing which can be easily taken away. Those teenage girls and other ones younger than them could

be girls that we know from places weve been to, and can easily become as confused and lost as those girls looked in the film document Kandahar. Another repercussion to civilians suffering another negative aspect of war is the existence of landmines. Landmines are, while clever to the soldiers for idea of putting undetectable bombs in the ground but to the unsuspecting civilians, theres not much praise for it. The landmines are a hazardous and irrelevant trap that injures poor innocent civilians in hope of killing off a couple of soldiers, adults or children. For instance in the written passage Parvanas Journey, little lively Leila was brutally killed in a landmine trying to get food for her family that was strategically placed by the soldiers to lure the desperate mob there. Leila believed that the landmines wouldnt harm her after she spent her lifetime wandering the landmines outside her impenetrable fortress. Another example is in the film document Kandahar when Nafaas travels to the Red Cross Camp with the baffling American doctor, there were victims from landmine incidents who were fortunate enough only to lose their limbs such as arms and legs and not their lives. The number of casualties was very alarming and the expressions on their faces were quite perplexing to the audience. It was like they did not care for their bodies but for someone to listen to their complaining. This not only happens in third world countries but it also happens in countries much like our own. In addition to whats been said, a further consequence regards the effects on women mentally and emotionally after the events of war cruelly rips their men out of their lives forever (husbands, fathers, sons and brothers). The aftermath in each situation is decidedly different. One woman might go mad after the man is gone and another might eventually be able to look past the grief and move on as best as she can. In the written text Parvanas Journey when the main character Parvana came across the wailing woman in the desert it was most likely assumed that the aforementioned woman succumbed to her grief. What caused this grief might have been the death of a beloved male role in this womans life. This man mightve have died or was killed during war but in whatever type of circumstance the man died in, that woman is left dealing with many problems and difficulties. This added with grief, hopelessness and depression can eventually cause the women to drown in sorrow and madness. Another observation thats been made is that the role of Parvana is also similar to whats been speculated. This young girls loving and adoring father died quite horribly and sadly. Parvanas grief was very numbing, as if she couldnt feel anything in the world anymore, or that the pain was just a dream and soon shed wake up to find it was just a terrifying nightmare. This situation casts an abhorrent simulation in the minds of many women (young and old) who are not located in a war torn country. To lose a loved one is a terrifying thought but you can eventually move on, but for most like the wailing woman losing a loved one that you rely heavily on is just awful because when you lose this person, your life is literally an ancient dusty

rag incinerating in the breeze until there is nothing worth living for anymore. Youre just gone, vacant. Overall, one can conclude that war is a dangerous, cold hearted, cruel, hopeless affair that is spiteful in nature and all will be affected by it. The impact war has on the civilians, the confinement and victimisation of children as well as the use of landmines and it outcomes and additionally the effects war has on women psychologically and emotionally after their men are killed are four main factors that can demonstrate why that is. The texts that have been shown as examples are a fiction and a non-fiction but the both of them have a large amount of truth and fact within them.