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Giving Ka's father a name humanizes him and makes it easier to relate to him. Without a name, we as readers have to refer to him by his relationship to other characters, ie Ka's father, Anne's husband, the man who killed Dany's parents, etc.

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We never get Ka’s dad’s name because it adds to the sense of distance and mystery around him. It feels like he’s always holding something back, even from the reader. Not giving him a name makes him feel harder to understand, like he's hiding who he really is. Since he's struggling with his past as a torturer, it kind of makes sense that he doesn’t fully want to face who he is now. It definitely makes him feel more complex, and honestly, it made me feel like I didn’t really know him, just like Ka doesn’t.

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I feel like Ka's dad is never given a name in order to just keep him as a general plot point. It keeps the readers questioning who he really is and kind of puts you more into Ka's shoes.

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I feel like the father is not given a name because the story is not about him. It's about the people who were affected by him and his decisions. By not giving him a name, the attention is put on the other characters of the story. Also, to connect back to class he is a different person every time we read about him. By not giving him a name it makes the difference between the father's character easier to see.

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I think we never get his name because leaving him as this mysterious "tool" kind of character benefits the story. He is depicted as kind of a tool throughout the story, like his actions move the story forward and impact the characters around him. Which is in direct contrast to when women are used as tools in stories, in which they don't even move the story forward they are simply there to help the men in the story. They don't play an active role in the story. For example in "The Great Gatsby", Daisy is literally a plot device for Gatsby to project all his ambitions onto throughout the story, she doesn't actually move her story forward, but all the characters around her do. Ka's father is like the male version of her in some ways, his actions do have consequences, however he isn't as active in the story as it may seem.

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Ka’s dad since the beginning of the book is someone who we and Ka know little about. Redacting his name from the book seems like a narrative choice, both to keep opinion on him negative and to add to the fact that he might not want to be known. I his goes all the way back to when he was explaining not liking his picture taken, and keeping his face covered too.

His name was also not important to the main plot, as he was built in the end through his own perspective to have little redeeming qualities.

Alex

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Understanding Comics

1993

224 pages. Black and White with 8-page color section.

A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design.

Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Award, the Alph'art Award at Angoulême, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1994 (mass market edition).

Topics include:

Definitions, history, and potential.

Visual Iconography and its Effects.

Closure, reader participation between the panels.

Word-picture dynamics.

Time and motion.

The psychology of line styles and color.

Comics and the artistic process.

"With Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics the dialogue on and about what comics are and, more importantly, what comics can be has begun. If you read, write, teach or draw comics; if you want to; or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book."

"If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book immediately. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud."

-- Matt Groening, The Simpsons

" Understanding Comics is quite simply the best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered. With this book Scott McCloud has taken breathtaking leaps towards establishing a critical language that the comic art form can work with and build upon in the future. Lucid and accessible, it is an astonishing feat of perception. Highly recommended."

"Cleverly disguised as an easy-to-read comic book, Scott McCloud's simple looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of Time, Space, Art and the Cosmos! The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time. Bravo."

"In one lucid, well-designed chapter after another, [McCloud] guides us through the elements of comics style, and... how words combine with pictures to work their singular magic. When the 215-page journey is finally over, most readers will find it difficult to look at comics in quite the same way ever again."

-- Garry Trudeau, in the New York Times Review of Books

"The basic manual for introduction to the medium. Do not attempt to operate your comic without reading this first. "--

Warren Ellis

"...a rare and exciting work that ingeniously uses comics to examine the medium itself."

"...a brilliant comic book discussion of what makes comics work."

-- L. A. Times

"BRAVO!! Understanding Comics is a landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid medium. Its employment of comic art as its vehicle is brilliant. Everyone...anyone interested in this literary form must read it. Every school teacher should have one."

-- Will Eisner

"...one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written, even though it never discusses the subject directly."

-- Andy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the Mac

"Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics, is a must read for any true connoisseur of comics. Don't let its entertaining format fool you -- it's an in depth look at what makes the comics medium so great. If I knew half as much as Scott, this would be the book I'd write!"

-- Jim Lee

"[ Understanding Comics] might well turn out to be the rosetta stone, the secret decoder ring, the lyrics sheet, for pete's sake, to all that has gone on in comics art. [This] 216-page book is one of a kind, a combination of everything funny and profound, cool and quirky."

" Understanding Comics is spellbinding! With a lively wit and a laser intelligence, Scott McCloud offers us a fresh new look at the comics medium. Whether you're in the business or on the sidelines, this book will charge your batteries. More than just a scholarly analysis of the art form, it points the way to possibilities, giving inspiration to those wishing to explore the wonderful continent of sequential art."

-- James Gurney creator, Dinotopia

"McCloud firmly establishes his reputation as both the Thomas Edison and Marshall McLuhan of comic books...A comic book about comics, Understanding Comics is a thought-provoking book that will be talked about for years to come."

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1993 224 pages. Black and White with 8-page color section. A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design.

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I think that Ka's father is not given a name because it is making him slightly less human. The rest of the characters deserve to be differentiated from him because they are experiencing the effects of his character and what he has done to each of them. He is a representative of the negativity in each person's life and their inability to put a name to that negativity makes it more universal and mysterious.

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I believe the reason we never get Ka's father's name can be for two reasons, or a combination. The first being that his name is not specified because he is defined more through his actions and other characters. The importance of his character doesn't come from himself, it comes from the effects of his life, the lasting trauma he has inflicted on people and generational trauma following and his actions to redeem himself following. The second reason I believe may be because the book means to show that this isn't meant to be one specific person. There was other "Dew Breakers" who have their own unique yet similar backgrounds and have greatly impacted many lives. The anonymity of his name is meant to connect to a Haitian history of generational trauma, and in giving him a name it would take away from that connection.