Review Of ' Beasts Of No Nation '

Review Of ' Beasts Of No Nation '

Location in Literature: The Effect of Discretion

In the three novels, We Need New Names, The White Tiger, and Beasts of No Nation by NoViolet Bulawayo, Aravind Adiga, and Uzodinma Iweala, respectively, the specificity and non–specificity of the location in the novels have a profound effect in the way the underlying ideas are tied together. More explicitly, We Need New Names and The White Tiger rely on the specific location of the setting to aid in attaining the main goals that are achieved throughout the texts. However, in Beasts of No Nation, it is rather the opposite. Iweala's strategy to write a story with the absence of a specific location creates a strong case throughout the text that demonstrates three important factors: pre–conceived notions about the text have an influence in our understanding of the content, the story itself becomes more real when we eliminate the location and finally, it makes characters, particularly Agu, more relatable.



The absence of a specific location in Beasts of No Nation is effective in creating an unbiased lens to comprehend the text. Understanding a novel should not always be reliant on the location or the country it is set in. In Beasts of No Nation, Iweala clearly does not feel the need for us to know the location of the events taking place. What Iweala does is give our minds enough information to understand what is going on without the unnecessary information that might come otherwise. For example, when Agu is travelling with the

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