Traumatic Suffering in Roses and Bullets and Half of a Yellow Sun

War literature has continued to generate different critical arguments that validate the use of war and trauma narratives as important instruments for social reform. The emergence of war literature has created a link between history and fiction. This essay, explicates the traumatic suffering of characters in the selected novels. The avoidable wars that the novels fictionalize chronicle different levels of suffering and devastation that people went through in the historic war. The trauma theory conceptualized by Cathy Caruth was adopted in this research. This approach allows the flow of a proper psychoanalytical discourse to take place. It also propels the ideas of traumatic suffering to a level of critical understanding of literary values of the text. This research looks at the concept of tragic suffering and trauma holistically. Qualitative method of textual engagements enables this research to arrive at the conclusion that the characters in novels are traumatized by tragic suffering and devastating they experience during the different civil wars. In conclusion, this research implicitly, argues that civil war should be avoided because war brings different types of pains, torture, tragic sufferings and trauma.