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For nourishment, Ken has to rely on his father, the warrior. His father's moral values embody the motto to "hate his enemy." He teaches Ken to defend his honor without remorse. "The volatile potion is the only thing that can neutralize the disease of fear" (15). It is his father who "pulled most of the fear out of me. In fact, he transplanted the hate." (15). For most of Ken's life, he receives this type of hatred and rage. He learns to become immune to his emotions. He does not want to run anymore. "I think, I began growing weary of fear itself. Even prey get tired of running. It seems when both prey and predator are lost in the chase, both have hearts that beat hard and fast. One beats from fear, the other from hunger. I wanted to feel the beat of hunger" (46). Tired of following the distant memory of his mother's love and hope for him, Kenji allows his father to inject him with hate. "I began to willingly let my father inject me with his syringe-like arms, the ones that cured fear and administered hate" (48). Ken resolves to become a predator instead of the prey. His father is the catalyst which changed Kenji from a caring human being to an animal void of feeling and emotion. "Hate was becoming a light switch which I could easily turn off and on" (49). With this transformation, Ken surrenders to hate. .
Koa, being his second "sun" of influence, gives him an illusion of life that has control and stability. His friendly company offers Ken, an escape from home. They surf, fight, drink, and hang out together. Suffering from a similar type of thirst for control, Koa teaches Ken a way to be the master instead of the student. Basically he maintains the motto to not "give a *censored*" (56). However in Koa's attempt to show Ken a better life, Koa instead places in Ken a dangerous no-care type of attitude toward life.
Feeding Ken his illusionary world of control, Ken shapes his character to be more like Koa.
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