Purpose of The Dew Breaker's Scar

The use of the Scar on the dew breaker is symbolic and purposeful. The Scars serve a purpose when Ka is making the sculpture to personify him as a victim. As long as the Dew Breaker is personified as victim it continues to remind him of what he did and Ka will continue to believe that he was a prisoner which will further guilt the Dew Breaker. It seems like this scar is the reason why his daughter makes his past such a big deal. This scar also must haunt him when he is alone. The scar eventually pushes the dew breaker to tell Ka the truth and it in ways redeems him with his daughter in some ways. The Scar also presents another theme in the book being forgive but never forget. Everyone in the book who has been tortured may live long enough to forgive what was done for their own sanity but will never forget what was done to them. Danny had his chance to kill the Dew Breaker but when he was given the chance he didn’t because he felt that the dew breaker had become another person. The scar again being a reminder of who he was because Danny said that has he looked at his face it seemed as though the ferocity had faded and it seemed like it was not the same man. The Scars purpose of a reminder of a malevolent past is well served though out the book.