In The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour the character Mathurin Kerbouchard is looking for his father. At first Mathurin has many gold coins and tries to figure out where his father is. He gets on a boat and asks if they knew him. He has had no luck and is brought onto the boat as a slave. He convinces Walther, the captain, to let him be the pilot. He wants to go to Cadiz and finally convinces Walther to let him drive the boat there. In Cadiz he sells the boat while everyone went to a merchant named Ben Salom. He goes to Cordoba and meets Aziza. Aziza is royalty and they run away together. They go to Othman's castle and the guards find them and throw Kerbouchard into prison. He escapes and Eric wants to kill him. He meets a woman named Safia who will help him. Safia and Kerbouchard leave a couple of times, but she is always there to help him. Kerbouchard finds Suzanne the Hansgraf who guides him on his journey around Europe. Suzanne leaves from Constantinople while Kerbouchard has to go to Alamut. He finds his father there and they are together until he leaves to find his mistress. Some of the most important characters in the book are Safia, Suzanne, and Jean Kerbouchard. The most important of all is his father, Jean, because they make enemies along the way and always move forward, Mathurin searches for his father throughout the journey and his father is his educator. Both Mathurin and Jean Kerbouchard make enemies throughout their lives. trips. Their enemies were some of the same people. Tournemine became Mathurin's because he was responsible for the death of his beloved mother. Since Tournemine was the murderer, Mathurin felt remorse for Tournemine and attacked him and if Tournemine had not moved he would have been d...... middle of the card ......sequences of battles and defeats and can do better in the next one. Kerbouchard men learned this way, but in the end they always have their women to rely on. Jean Kerbouchard is the only person who is as important as or more than Mathurin for his intelligence in teaching his son and for being a father by teaching him everything. Mathurin wouldn't have had the determination to find his father and face everything he did if his father didn't mean something to him. She taught him everything he knew and what he needed to know. It made him determined to see him again and it was good for Jean too. She got to see him again when she couldn't see him because of Mahmoud. Parents are taken away from their children every day and the children, for the most part, always find their way back to them. It's an instinct for children to find their parents and Mathurin has taken it to the next level.