There are a lot of conflicts in this novel. Although what I think is the biggest, is that war is making Jal forgetting everything he once new and loved. When he was a child he would play with the other children talk to and love his mother and enjoy his life. Now all he cares about is how many Arabs he can kill and what he can steal from them once they’re dead, all he wants to do is fight on the front lines and save his country. When he pictures his child hood he sees his mother being beaten his sisters crying and his village burning in front of him. As his life went on his concern for others became lower and lower. In his first battle in Ethiopia
