When he took the child from the sack, he found him completely deformed. Claude's compassion for this ugliness intensified. He vowed in his heart to raise this child out of love for his brother, thus atoning for his brother Jahan's future sins. It was a meager offering of good deeds he wanted to accumulate in advance, in case the little boy ever found himself in need of this single currency that would grant him entry to heaven. He baptized the adopted child and named him Quasimodo, either to commemorate the day he found him or to emphasize just how imperfect this poor little creature was. In truth, Quasimodo's one-eyed, hunchbacked, and scalloped appearance was merely a rough approximation.