During his childhood one of his peers commented: "I doubt it. This boy is not in his right mind, Julián, and it's probably not his fault." (213) the "fault" referred to by the peer is that of the mother who treats him in an abusive way. His normal comments to the boy would be: "And where have you been, you little prick?" (215) No wonder that "Years later, every time he stuck the gun in a prisoner's mouth and pulled the trigger, Chief Inspector Francisco Javier Fumero remembered the day he saw his mother's head explode like a bullet." a ripe watermelon... and I felt nothing, only the tedium of dead things." (215) In fact, Fumero ended up killing his mother and from then on things got worse as he grew older. The fact is that he had a certain apathy towards death because for him it was just another phase of life and he liked to control it Fumero did not become an evil criminal because of his mother's sin that of raising the boy in a poor way and violent, so later Fumero was a heartless monster in Barcelona as an inspector. The Bible states that children must live with the iniquities of their parents. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafón is a window into how parental questions influence then the lives of these three characters were radically changed because