Although some actions could be forgiven and forgotten, some will always be remembered. In Edwidge Danticat’s "The Dew Breaker", we experience what it’s like to have a past that cannot be forgiven. In “The Book of the Dead”, Ka, a Haitian girl who is on her way to deliver her new sculpture, finds herself alone when her father disappears along with her art piece. The chapter opens with Ka being interviewed by police officer Bo and hotel manager Mr. Flavio Salinas and she reveals to the readers that her father has been experiencing some nightmares from when he served time in prison. She never explained why or how he ended up there, only that he has a “ropelike scar” from his experience there, which Ka expresses with cracks in her sculpture. Ka’s sculpture reflected a picture of her father, vulnerable and weak, just as she had imagined how he was in prison. She was meant to deliver this piece to Gabrielle Fonteneau, a Haitian American TV actress and was worried that the cracks that symbolized the flaws and scars of her father was a mistake. She started doubting herself, asking herself questions like, “Would they seem amateurish and unintentional, like a mistake? Could the wood come apart with simple movements or with age? Would the client be satisfied?” (7). Although Ka knows that her sculpture would not show her father’s flaws, mistakes, and scars without the imperfectness of the sculpture, she still questioned if leaving unorganized cracks in her sculpture was a good addition.