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In this book the antagonist was the main character Ishmael Beah. He wasn't always a bad character but through the suffering he went through during the war he changed. He was brainwashed from a harmless victim to a physiologically messed up tyrant. Ishmael would shoot to kill, bomb and burn villages, and slaughtered innocents. He did this to attempt to claim revenge upon the rebels who are responsible for the deaths of his family, friends, and the rest of his village. Once he was taken into custody by the rehabilitation center for child war veterans he and a kid he met at the center by the name of Mambu started a fight between the rebel and army children. The army kids killed four rebels and wounded several others using bayonets

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