Parents In Carlos Zafón's 'The Shadow Of The Wind'

The bible avers that children have to live with the iniquities of their parents ( ). The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafón is a window into how the sins of parents impact the lives of their children. In the novel, Penelope, Julián, and Fumero all suffer from the sins of their parents. Penelope and Julián both suffer from the fornication in which both their parents were involved in to create Julián. For Fumero it was the sins in which his mother inflicted on him that made him comparable to a psychopath. All three characters in this novel attests to the bible 's statement that children have to live with the iniquities of their parents.

Julián Carax 's whole life was changed by the fact that he was a bastard which is no sin of his own but

Once Mr. Aldaya found out about Julián and Penélope, "Penélope had not left the house.....since her father had locker her in the room on the third floor." (374) Mr. Aldaya was so enraged that he imprisoned his daughter and didn 't let her out of the house once he found out about Julián and hers relationship. The true reason he was anger wasn 't at the girl but at himself since "Julián and Penélope are brother and sister." (377) The children were not aware of the fact that they were related and probably wouldn 't have had a relationship if they knew. This thing is that because her father sinned earlier and life and had a relationship outside of his marriage with Julián 's mother Penélope then had to pay. "Penélope Aldaya gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on September 26, 1919" and during birth a " hemorrhage took Penélope 's life." (384) Thing is that if "a doctor had been able to examine her, he would have said that the baby had already been in danger." (384) Mr. Aldaya of course didn 't have the girl examined or even have doctor present as she gave birth but listened while she "shrieked and scratched at the locked door." (384) Penélope didn 't have to die on that die and her love with Julián shouldn 't have caused her to be locked away but she had to pay for the sins her father just like her baby did on the day is was born dead. Where as Penélope 's life was cut short

During his childhood one of his peers commented: "I doubt it. This kid isn 't right in the head, Julián, and it 's probably not his fault." (213) the "fault" the peer refers to is that of his mother whom would treat him abusively. Her normal comments to the boy would be: "And where have you been, you little shit?" (215) It is none surprising that, "Years later, every time he stick his revolver into the mouth of a prisoner and pulled the trigger, Cheif Inspector Francisco Javier Fumero would remember the day he saw his mother 's head burst open like a ripe watermelon.... and didn 't feel anything, just the tedium of dead things." (215) Fumero did in fact end up murdering his own mother and from there it just got worse as he aged. The this is he had a certain apathy to death for to him it was just another stage of life and one he enjoyed controlling. Fumero didn 't become an evil criminal on his own doing but from years of abuse from his own mother. His mother 's sin was that of raising the boy poorly and abusively so in tern Fumero was a heartless monster in Barcelona as an Inspector. The bible it affirms that children have to live with the iniquities of their parents. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafón is a window into how the inquiries of parents then affect the lives of their children. These three characters ' lives were changed dramatically because