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character 3) At the being of the novel Ismael Beah is ten years old. However he gets older as the novel progresses. He is thirteen when recruited to the army. 4) Ishmael's two brothers names are Junior and Ibrahim. 6)Ishmael does not go to school because of financial issue's. His father cannot afford it. 7)Ishmael has a very distant relationship with his father. He rarely speaks with his father because he is never home and always working. 9)Laura Simms aids Ishmael by sending him money, and later adopting him. 10)The officer in charge of training the child soldiers is corporal Gadhafi under lieutenant Jabati. plot 1)The rebels next announce that they are going to select some people from among them to be recruited into their army. They split the group in half. First, they choose Khalilou and then Ishmael. Junior isn’t chosen, he can only looks down at the ground and avoids Ishmael’s eyes. Ishmael realizes that this will break their connection. However, the rebels then suddenly change their minds and announce a new selection. This time, Junior is chosen, but Ishmael is not. Since the remainder of the people are not needed, they are marched to the river where they say they are going to kill them all. 5)the Revolutionary United Front attack villages in their own country because the countries politics were corrupted, mismanagement of the country, and electoral violence that led to a weak civil society, the collapse of the education system, and, by 1991, an entire generation of dissatisfied youth, members of which were attracted to the rebellious message of the Revolutionary United Front. 10)In the end, Ishmael decides to leave Sierra Leone because there is nothing left for him (his family is gone) and because his country is not a safe place. Obstacles Ishmael must overcome in leaving his country include; escaping the rebels, lack of money, finding a way out, nightmares, migraines, leaving his friends and the guilt attached to being the only member of his family to survive.