When people talk about the evils of a person, it would mean, how a person can be harmful or they want to hurt someone without any real reasons. It would also mean how a person can be extremely pleasant to be around because of their actions they have committed. In the novel, The Tattooed Solider by Hector Tobar is based off a married man that had a family and came home one day to find his wife and child killed. It was the soldiers from the village that killed his family so, he wanted revenge for their death. Before he left the town, a neighbor told him whom she saw come out of his home and she thought it was him who killed their family. Antonio Bernal was the solider that the neighbor saw and who later gets caught by Antoni who wants revenge…show more content… Antonio is a type of person that would not let go of his family’s death because all he cares about is to get revenge and kill Guillermo. Antonio has a choice to not kill Guillermo, but he rather let revenge consume him making him an evil and a bad person. The narrator states, “Exhaustion had whittled Antonio’s passion for revenge down to the simplest of desires: to be rid of the man.” (302) Antonio had the choice to not kill Guillermo but he had decided against that because the thought that killing will make things even and maybe even bring his family back but it cannot happen. All he cared was to kill Guillermo and he was becoming evil because he was letting him get possessed with the thirst of blood for the death of his family. He should have let it go because nothing can bring his family back and he let the evil side of him to come out and feel the overwhelming emotion to take vengeance in the worst viable way. Antonio was sent out of Guatemala to get the past out of his mind because he saw the way his family was, but it did not mean that he had to kill. He had that choice of not becoming an evil person because he was ruthless the way he had killed Guillermo and he showed no type of compassion just as he thought that Guillermo had done. The narrator states, “The solider looked up, and at that instant Antonio fired. The bullet like a knife. Brass candy.” (295) Antonio showed no mercy when killing Guillermo because he had shot him on the steps of Guillermo’s own house with all the neighbors seeing and hearing what was happening. He had that choice to walk away and let the man be, but he wanted to kill him and see him suffer making him an evil person because he was harming someone that did not exactly mean any deaths but had to follow them. Antonio wanted justice for the death of his family, but there were other
