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Reading, Half Bad, I felt repentant for the main character, Nathan Brynn, because from the minute he was born he was despised by everybody, except for Annalise, his brother, his grandmother, and eventually a black witch, Gabriel too, because he wasn’t a pure white witch, he was half black and half white. For example, nobody would talk to him, or even look at him when he was young, almost everybody was completely disgusted by him. His mother was forced by the witch council, and eventually his gran to, to commit suicide because of his existence, and when he was 15 hunters took him away from his home, and forced him to live in a cage for two years. Later on they tattooed markings all over his body which they were going to use to control him, to

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