The Lost Boy Summary
The Lost Boy
This book tells the story of a young boy who has never had a family. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag from foster home to the next. The only world he knows in adaption to survive is one of isolation and fear. Thankfully others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, but his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home.
Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer's book “A Child Called It”. This Novel is an auto-biography of Dave Pelzer. In Pelzer's The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the emotional and intense story of his life as an adolescent child in the foster system. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved to five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences displeasure from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble makers and worthless of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. It follows his experiences in the foster care system. After being taken from his mother Dave goes from one foster home to another describing his life. I believe the title of the book (“The Lost Boy”) relates to Dave to feeling lost, as in alone. He does not have a family.
The Novel begins where it ended in the novel “A Child called It" which tells when he lived with his evil abusive mother who as always, is mistreating him. To better understand the sequel book, the first section of this novel is my favorite but saddest moments of this book which can show you an example of Dave’s writing throughout this novel trilogy and in this very first paragraph.-------
------“I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new- I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner.”
David Peltzer, the author of "The Lost Boy", tells
This book tells the story of a young boy who has never had a family. His only possessions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag from foster home to the next. The only world he knows in adaption to survive is one of isolation and fear. Thankfully others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, but his real hurt is just beginning -- he has no place to call home.
Lost boy is a follow up to Dave Pelzer's book “A Child Called It”. This Novel is an auto-biography of Dave Pelzer. In Pelzer's The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the emotional and intense story of his life as an adolescent child in the foster system. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved to five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences displeasure from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble makers and worthless of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family. It follows his experiences in the foster care system. After being taken from his mother Dave goes from one foster home to another describing his life. I believe the title of the book (“The Lost Boy”) relates to Dave to feeling lost, as in alone. He does not have a family.
The Novel begins where it ended in the novel “A Child called It" which tells when he lived with his evil abusive mother who as always, is mistreating him. To better understand the sequel book, the first section of this novel is my favorite but saddest moments of this book which can show you an example of Dave’s writing throughout this novel trilogy and in this very first paragraph.-------
------“I'm alone. I'm hungry and I'm shivering in the dark. I sit on top of my hands at the bottom of the stairs in the garage. My head is tilted backward. My hands became numb hours ago. My neck and shoulder muscles begin to throb. But that's nothing new- I've learned to turn off the pain. I'm Mother's prisoner.”
David Peltzer, the author of "The Lost Boy", tells