What does the story tell about Ishmael’s experience becoming a soldier? How does this either fit or defy his character? The story tells about how Ishmael becomes a soldier by the Rebels coming to his village and taking him and his friends to come with them to be in a part of their army. Ishmael tells about how he would fight for his brothers till the day he dies. He was brought into the rebel group at an early age and grew up only knowing how to kill. He said his moto was “kill or be killed.” Which in his case was true, there was a war that people were scared of the rebels and the other villages would do whatever they could do to protect their
