Given that Beasts of No Nation has been widely read and has profoundly influenced the ways that readers think about child soldiering and conflict in

Given that Beasts of No Nation has been widely read and has profoundly influenced the ways that readers think about child soldiering and conflict in West Africa, what kinds of impressions do you think readers are taking away from this novel in terms of their understanding of how children experience soldiering and why this phenomenon sometimes occurs in Africa?