Author: Dave Pelzer Title: A Child Called It Genre: Non- Fiction – Memoir Audience: Older - mid teens - adults A Child Called It is a very moving and unbelievable journey of a young boy (David Pelzer) who manages to somehow survive his mother’s unpredictable and torturous games. A Child Called It‚ the first of the three covers his life as a child 4 to 12 years. The book is brilliantly written and full of suspense it’s as if your eyes are glued to the page.
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“A Child Called It” is a heart wrenching‚ page turner‚ must read‚ novel. Child abuse is such an important issue that needs to be spoken about‚ and that is just what this author did. The author of this novel‚ Dave Pelzer describes his own cruel life that he was subjected to from such an early age. It becomes obvious‚ very quick into the reading‚ that the author certainly went through great trauma. The visual imagery Pelzer shares‚ such as being forced to eat his own vomit‚ swallow soap‚ surviving
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Book report ‘A child called it’ by Dave Pelzer This book is based on the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer‚ who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable‚ alcoholic mother. A mother who played tortuous‚ unpredictable games; games that left him nearly 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
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Jerome Gatchalian CD 4 - Parenting Ms. Padilla November 16‚ 2010 A Child Called "It" - Book Reflection First of all‚ I am not a big fan of reading books‚ but this is one book that is hard to put down. I would recommend it‚ not only for parents but for people who works with children as well. This book is very informative and will give its readers a whole new level of appreciation for their children. A Child Called "It" is a very inspiring story of a young boy who grew up with an abusive mother
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accomplishments for any man‚ yet what I admire most about Dave Pelzer is that he didn’t grow up to be an abusive‚ alcoholic‚ psychotic mess. He certainly had reason to. Pelzer is the survivor of the third worst case of child-abuse in California’s history‚ a case he vividly recalls in A Child Called "It". Here he tells of a childhood so horrific and‚ at times‚ so nauseating that while reading I found myself praying that there was a hell so Pelzer’s parents could rot in it for all eternity. And not just hell
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A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer is his own autobiography of his life as a child being abused by his alcoholic mother‚ Catherine Roerva Pelzer‚ who isolates him from the family‚ then abuses him‚ and nearly killed him through starvation‚ poisoning‚ and once stabbing him. Since Mother starved him for days‚ he began to steal food in order to survive‚ and when she finds out he has stolen food‚ she abuses him with her own “games”. Dave reflects on the “good times” in his childhood‚ because Mother was
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Dave Pelzer: A Child Called “It” Dave Pelzer was a boy that grew up in the 1970’s and survived a childhood of physical‚ mental‚ and emotional abuse to share his story. I decided to do a personality critique on Dave Pelzer because I thought it would be interesting to analyze how abuse can shape the personality of an individual. Dave Pelzer grew up in Daly City‚ California and was the second born child of five boys. By the time he started school at Thomas Edison Elementary School‚ he realized he
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A child called it book report Title: A child called “it”. Pages read: 180 Author: David Pelzer Pages in book: 180 1. David Pelzer is the author of this autobiography. David suffers severe child abuse at the hands of Mother. He overcomes remarkable odds and survives unthinkable torture. Catherine Roerva Pelzer - David’s mother. A complete alcoholic and always punishes David for being a ‘bad boy’. Stephan Joseph Pelzer - David’s
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The book I read was `A Child Called It’ by Dave Pelzer. The book is an autobiography of Pelzer. He writes about his struggle to stay alive in a home where he is treated like a slave and an animal. The book begins with the people at Dave’s school finally report Dave and his condition to the authorities. Then he tells us about his past when he still lived in a happy‚ normal family. Dave had a mother‚ father and 2 older brothers. While his Father is at work as a fire fighter‚ his mother turns to alcohol
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A Child Called It was about the struggles of a young boy named Dave Pelzer. Dave was put through hard times and at some point lost hope in his dreams and doubted the humanity of mankind‚ but in the end because of his strong will he was able to overcome his problems and make a better life for himself. When Dave was younger him and his brothers‚ Ronald and Stan were happy in a normal family with a loving mom and dad‚ but as years passed things started to change. Dave’s parents became alcoholics
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