A factor that contributes to how a person can change throughout war is their environment. Environment is defined as the circumstances or conditions that surround a person. A war-torn environment can lead to a change psychologically in the way a person thinks and consequentially how they behave. Seeing atrocities and fearing death on a constant basis can really mold a person and have scarring effects. According to J. Glenn Gray in The Warri

ors: Reflections on Men in Battle, “death in war is commonly caused by members of my own species actively seeking my end, despite the fact that they may never have seen me and have no personal reason for mortal enmity” (Gray 100). The soldier as a result of being on the battle field and seeing death as a common occurrence sees the chance of being dead with a high probability. The soldiers, who kill, are human beings just like him, who are fighting for a cause, on a grander scale,

Violence is a very significant part of war, and contributes to a feeling of apathy towards death, thus changing the way soldiers feel about life. An environment of violence will shape a person’s views on life. For example, a little boy growing up in war-torn Iraq, who has been exposed to a wide array of violence and lack of opportunities compared to a young girl growing up in the suburbs of the United States. When the little boy grows up he will have a less optimistic view on the world, compared to more idealistic views of the girl from the suburbs, because he has gone through vivid experiences first hand and seen war and grown up in a world of instability. This has affected the boy, and has transformed him into “a different kind of creature” in the midst of war.

A victim of war also experiences personal change through huma

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