A Child Called It Character
The main character in this book is a little boy named David Pelzer, and it’s just a story about how brutal some parents get when they have issues of their own. Davids mother, Roerva, is a complete alcoholic and always punishes David for being a ‘bad boy’. As a young boy, his means of survival was through his faith in God. His abuse was a game to his mother but hell for him. The games she played with David varied from waving a knife to his face stabbing him the chest to starving David for joy as her form of control. His mother did not consider him a son but a slave and no longer a boy, he was no considered an “it”. David had nothing and no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive, dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him son. Although it took sometime for him to get out of his struggles, he did. The school nurse and teachers came to realize the abuse he was going through and finally decided to take a stand, after a really long time of the nurse recording all his wounds from “accidents” that his Mother told him to say.
David shows great determination throughout the book with his fight for survival. One of his mothers favorite games are to starve him, only on the odd time feeding him leftovers that dogs wouldn’t even eat, that’s when hes lucky. Times she doesn’t feed him they just throw the leftovers out, and David has to do dishes and he kept sneaking into the garbage can to eat the food they didn’t want. After a while his mother caught on and put some pork in the garbage, which she knew he would take. “While I was sick, Mother informed me she had purposefully left the meat in the refrigerator for two weeks, to spoil before she threw it away.”
Throughout the novel, David made quite a change in his own thinking of himself, and the way he acted. The first bit, he’s a loved little boy, with a name, who always did great in school and atop his class for smiley face stickers. Then his mother started treating him bad and only...
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