When Howl was little he was the only one that survived in his litter Howl’s mom, Amber slowly went insane screaming at yelling at everyone. She kept saying that Howl murdered his siblings, that it was all his fault. As punishment Amber cut of Howl’s ears. To remind him of the terrible things he had done. I couple years later and Amber’s insanity had increased a lot. His father moved away from them, he tried taking Howl with him but Amber pulled a knife on him and told him to leave. Howl spent most of his time out of the house he started to wear a skull mask in hopes of protecting his face from any more injuries. A couple years later Amber often talked about how people couldn’t Jude her if they didn’t see what she had done she said not even the spirits could Judge her they didn’t know what she did the then finally killed Howl.