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Line 1: {{work}} {{quote\| ''"This is not our war. This is [[Title Drop\|someone else's war.]]"''}} A [[Young Adult Literature\|Young Adult]] novel by Rose Christo. Line 10: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''Someone Else's War'' contains examples of: ===~~ * [[Actual Pacifist]]: Matteo. * [[Adult Fear]]: Your child is kidnapped and trained to be a [[Human Shield~~\|human shield~~]] for the local rabble-rousing [[Church Militant\|church militants]]. Even if he doesn't die, he's changed for life--childhood gone, innocence shattered, his body a haunted shell, his peace of mind violated by the things he's seen and done against his will. [[Sex Slave\|And you thank God your child isn't a girl.]] * [[Adults Are Useless]]: Played straight, inverted, averted, and subverted at every possible chance. * [[Anyone Can Die]] Line 20 ⟶ 19: * [[Body Horror]]: Matteo undergoes a ''severe'' amount of physical trauma--and [[Determinator\|gets right back up]] every time. * [[Bury Your Gays]]: It's mentioned that the LRA hates homosexuals about as much as they hate Muslims, and it's strongly implied that {{spoiler\|Marunde is gay}}. {{quote\| ''"There's no reason for you to come with us!"''~~<br />~~ ''"There isn't? Muslims aren't the only people the LRA like to kill by the hundreds."'' }} ** If true, this would qualify him for [[~~Straight~~Invisible ~~Gay~~to Gaydar]]. * [[Catch Phrase]]: One could probably make a drinking game out of the number of times Matteo says "Inshallah" (or "God willing"). Matteo uses "God is good" to bookend the novel. This is actually a Muslim prayer known as the Takbir. Line 46 ⟶ 45: [[Sixth Ranger]]: [[Cloudcuckoolander\|Eliza]] ** [[Team Dad]]: [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass\|Lieutenant Panga]] * [[Foreign Queasine]]: When Matteo finds out that the [[Child Soldiers~~\|child soldiers~~]]' diet mostly consists of mealworms and other still-living vermin. He gets over it fairly quickly however. * [[Forgiveness]]: Most definitely the main theme of the novel. Especially poignant with Matteo's realization that {{spoiler\|Lieutenant Luo is not an evil person, but the product of an evil childhood}} * [[Freudian Trio]]: [[The Id\|Matteo]], [[The Ego\|Ruth]], and [[The Superego\|Asher]] Line 74 ⟶ 73: * [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler\|Otto}} * [[Troubling Unchildhood Behavior]]: Mostly for Asher and Otto. Both times it's shown to be a facade they picked up from the adults bossing them around. * [[True Beauty Is Onon the Inside]]: A touching example between Matteo and Ruth. Ruth's appearances are described in unflattering ways that leave the reader with very little doubt that she is an ugly girl, by most conventions. Matteo holds such a fond opinion of her that he only ever sees her as beautiful and doesn't understand others' remarks to the contrary. * [[Truth in Television]] * [[Tyke Bomb]]: Children who are born to the female captives get automatically thrown into the army themselves, raised to fight as soon as they're capable of hand-eye coordination. Jeremiah, the youngest of the [[Child Soldiers~~\|child soldiers~~]], is only seven. The adults only ever talk to him if they need him to do something for them. As a result, no one ever taught him how to read or write, what a mother is, or that people who die aren't just "sleeping." * [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]] * [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: See [[Human Shield]] above. ** Some of the LRA's targets avert this, but they're in the minority. * [[~~Zero-Percent~~0% Approval Rating]]: The LRA more or less has one of these, [[Real Life Writes the Plot\|as in real life]], unless you are an [[Church Militant\|overly zealous Christian]] who thinks no one in Africa should be allowed to practice a religion other than Christianity. However, they're still winning the war {{spoiler\|initially}} by a combination of guerrilla warfare and their enemies being [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child\|unwilling to murder the child soldiers they send out on the frontlines]]. {{reflist}} [[Category:Young Adult Literature]] [[Category:Someone ~~Elses~~Else's War]] [[Category:Literature]]