A Child Called It Book Review
“A Child called it” Book Review
In the autobiography “A child called it” written by Dave Pelzer is a timeline of Dave’s life as a young child and demonstrates the abuse he went to before he is rescued. This book was released in 1995, he has written 15 other books 3 of his books are a sequel to “a child called it”.
This book show the devastating and disgusting events in one of the most severe child abuse cases in Californian history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. A mum who tortured, played mental games, games that left him for dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave and no longer a boy, but an "it."
The story of a child called it is a novel that shows a disgusting and unbearable case of child abuse against the author dave pelzer. It goes through every unimaginable act of child abuse some so severe that it will shock you, such as stabbing and trying to incinerate dave alive. Even disgusting acts like eating vomit and feces. The story also leads to daves rescuing and the change in his life when he now knew he had won and survived. The young Pelzer was the household slave. Despised by schoolmates for stealing their food to survive and …show more content…
For years as a youth, his mother beat him, burnt him, and forces him to many of other cruelties. During his years in mums house, Dave goes through mental trauma in addition to his physical abuse. He begins to hate himself, to despise his brothers for avoiding any abuse, and to question whether his life is even worth living. However, Dave escapes his Mother when his school doctor and a handful of teachers, decides to tell the police to Dave’s condition. The police, recognizing that Dave’s parents must be abusing him often, they then take Dave away from his home for
In the autobiography “A child called it” written by Dave Pelzer is a timeline of Dave’s life as a young child and demonstrates the abuse he went to before he is rescued. This book was released in 1995, he has written 15 other books 3 of his books are a sequel to “a child called it”.
This book show the devastating and disgusting events in one of the most severe child abuse cases in Californian history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. A mum who tortured, played mental games, games that left him for dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave and no longer a boy, but an "it."
The story of a child called it is a novel that shows a disgusting and unbearable case of child abuse against the author dave pelzer. It goes through every unimaginable act of child abuse some so severe that it will shock you, such as stabbing and trying to incinerate dave alive. Even disgusting acts like eating vomit and feces. The story also leads to daves rescuing and the change in his life when he now knew he had won and survived. The young Pelzer was the household slave. Despised by schoolmates for stealing their food to survive and …show more content…
For years as a youth, his mother beat him, burnt him, and forces him to many of other cruelties. During his years in mums house, Dave goes through mental trauma in addition to his physical abuse. He begins to hate himself, to despise his brothers for avoiding any abuse, and to question whether his life is even worth living. However, Dave escapes his Mother when his school doctor and a handful of teachers, decides to tell the police to Dave’s condition. The police, recognizing that Dave’s parents must be abusing him often, they then take Dave away from his home for