Silas owes Manuel for saving his life when he was about to die. This can be shown in the book on page 62,
"Finally, his body too weak to take another step, he lay down by the side of the road and slipped into unconsciousness. The light came slowly, and the ghost wondered how long he had been dead. A day? Three days? It didn't matter. His bed was soft like a cloud, and the air around him smelled sweet with candles...'Someone left you on my doorstep. You were ill. I fed you. You've been here many days.' "
This shows that Aringarossa saved Silas' life when he was almost dead. Since Aringarossa saved Silas he owes Arinigarossa.
He has nothing to loose. He lost his mother when he was young and he killed his father for killing his mother.
"His drunken father, a burly dockworker, enraged by the arrival of an
albino son, beat his mother regularly, blaming her for the boy's embarrassing condition. When the
boy tried to defend her, he too was badly beaten.
One night, there was a horrific fight, and his mother never got up. The boy stood over his lifeless
mother and felt an unbearable up-welling of guilt for permitting it to happen.
This is my fault!"
This shows that his father killed his mother when he was only 7. He also thinks that his mother death is his fault. In respnce he killed h9is father as shown in the quote below,
"As if some kind of demon were controlling his body, the boy walked to the kitchen and grasped a
butcher knife. Hypnotically, he moved to the bedroom where his father lay on the bed in a drunken
stupor. Without a word, the boy stabbed him in the back. His father cried out in pain and tried to
roll over, but his son stabbed him again, over and over until the apartment fell quiet."
His appearance was also unusual. His father was ashamed of his appearance because he was albino. Also he was made fun of because of his appearance. As shown in the quote mentioned above his father was embarrassed and even went to the extent of beating his mother due to his appearance. Another example of him being made fun of / discriminated against due to his appearance is when he was on the run.
"His strange appearance made him an outcast among the other young runaways, and he was forced to live alone in the basement of a dilapidated factory, eating stolen fruit and raw fish from the dock."
This shows that he was discriminated against due to his appearance. This shows that he has nothing to lose. He has no family and no friends.
Typically people who don't have parents and are made fun of aren't very good at making decisions. We can look at real life, many orphans who don't have anyone looking after them don't turn out too well. They typically live a life filled with crime. This relation could also be the case in the book. Since Silas has lived a life full of crimes, such as stealing food and killing his father, he could have done this bad action. I think that the relation could be applied to the book.
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