Thoughts about conflict discussion

During the conflict discussion with Jasmine, we both agreed that the major/most prominent conflict is man vs. self-Ishmael must learn to accept and forgive himself for what he did as a child soldier. We both agreed that if we had been on the run from the war, we would do what it takes to survive but not kill anyone. I learned that Ishmael was faced with a lot of challenges. I learned that the conflicts/challenges Ishmael was faced with made him stronger. I also learned that the man vs. man conflict of the rebels vs. the government army caused all the conflicts that Ishmael had. The reason we did not say that the rebels vs. the government army was the major/most prominent conflict is because this book is written from Ishmael's perspective and in the book you see that he is trying to forgive himself for what he did as a child soldier. We thought that the man vs. self conflict of Ishmael needing to learn to forgive and accept himself was a major conflict because all the other conflicts that he is faced with basically lead up to this one. Even though we agreed on basically everything about the conflict, listening to each other's answers to the questions helped us develop better answers for the questions.