Abstract This study explores how character formation has been deployed in Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday and Obinna Udenwe’s Satans and Shaitans in the advancement of their discourse on the different propensities for terrorism in literary studies. The study is premised on the knowledge that character formation is an essential literary element, especially as far as delivering the ideas of a literary writer is concerned. The research is grounded on three objectives namely; to invest...