A great hero, the main character of the story, and a born leader; Pākaʻa is the savior and -legitimate. Pākaʻa is widely speculated as a hero by most readers and everybody existing within the fictional realm of the story, undeniably he’s a perfect human being who manages to always make the right decision. He does and always has. Right? Wrong. Pākaʻa is the closet antagonist of The Wind Gourd of Laʻamaomao. The so-called “savior” has displayed several characteristics that contribute to my claim of his nefarious acts; his true nature.
Pākaʻa is seen throughout most of the story carrying out his petty revenge plan to kill the Hoʻokeles: the two men who took his job as kahu (the aliʻi’s babysitter). Pākaʻa expresses his true intent with…show more content… Kūapākaʻa was turned into a mindless warrior who albeit was smart like his father was not brave enough to act out against the injustice his father has committed. The most heinous part of Pākaʻa’s plan is that all those murders he had committed were indirectly: he forced his son to murder several dozen lives. “The keiki knew Hoʻokele-i-Hilo and Hoʻokele-i-Puna would die, and he felt sorry for them, but he had to obey his father’s orders. He suppressed his compbuttion for his fellow human beings so he could carry out his father’s revenge” (Nakuina, 84). The amount of trauma and long term affect that has on Kūapākaʻa is undeterminable, on the surface he keeps a calm, cool, and collected face; but what quantity of demons arise as Kūapākaʻa develops into an adult? Kūapākaʻa has value over human lives and reveals remorse for those who have been lost (something his father is incapable of). The next murder case is where Kūapākaʻa was sent to kill the six fishermen, which I may add were burned alive with their families watching. To reiterate; THEY WERE BURNED ALIVE WHILE THEIR CHILDREN AND WIVES WATCHED! I swear Pākaʻa is the Hawaiian reincarnate of Adolf
