The Drew Breaker

On reading the book, my first impression of Ka'a father was that he was a monster. How could he have done those things to his own people? How could he have looked at women and defiled and defaced their bodies by tying heavy bricks to their breasts, also tying bricks to men testicles? He was such a sadist. Men have been tried years later at the international courts in La Hague for crimes against humanity, he should be one of those who were tried also.
Dany had the opportunity to finish him off while he was sleeping for what he did to his parents in Haiti, but Dany had a heart, he thought maybe he was not the person. He seemed to do something to nearly every character in the book, yet I believed that if they were given the opportunity to kill the person he was presenting himself to be now, they might think twice of taking his life.
Can someone love a monster, it seems possible, because Anne, Ka's mother seemed to love him even though she knew he killed her brother,'the preacher' and it was her brother who marked him for life. I can understand Ka's question to her mother, How could you? She was repulsed by what he told her, so, how could her mother love him and even make a child with him. Can a leopard change its spots? No, but I believed that a person can have a change of heart and that change of heart is what Anne saw in him. He was reaching out to another human for love, as he said that Anne and Ka were his angels. Maybe through them his life was redeemed and the life he was living was a penance for all the wicked things he had done earlier in his life.
As the catholics would say he was going through purgatory, hell in himself, that could be far worst than being imprisoned. This whole aspect of his life, living in America, having a family, a barber shop was just a lie, a make believe by him that if he live a quiet life the things he did in his former life would pass away, but they just stay below the veneer that he had acquire to haunt him while he sleep.

Chesla