A child Called It by Dave Pelzer is a true story based on a boys life that grew up and was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally, unstable alcoholic mother. She would play torturous and unpredictable games with him which left him nearly dead. Some of the games included him drinking ammonia and Clorox, this would burn his throat and his immune system terribly. His mother would starve him for days and sometimes weeks at a time. He got to the point that he needed to steel food from the grocery stores and his classmates lunches. when his mother found out that he stole food, she would make him throw it back up and re-eat it. One of her favorites games that she would play with him was having him eat his baby brothers feces. She started to get worse and worse and no longer considered him as a human or her son, she referred him as an "it", her slave. When he goes to school and teachers ask about his bruises, he is forced to lie because his mother brainwashed him. He always gets punished whenever he does not complete his chores within the time limit she gave him. His only hope and love was from his father. His father would sneak him food whenever his mother was not around. Later down the road when his mother got worse, his father decided to move out and Dave's dreams of hope and love was crushed and no longer existed. He would live down in the basement on an army cot without blankets or a heater. One day, she stabbed him in the chest and he almost died but suffered through the pain. By the end of the book his mother finally got caught and he was sent to a foster home. In the second book called, "the lost boy" is about him moving through foster homes. I found this book extremely interesting because these things really do happen in our everyday life.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer reviewed by Michaela Chauvie
A child Called It by Dave Pelzer is a true story based on a boys life that grew up and was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally, unstable alcoholic mother. She would play torturous and unpredictable games with him which left him nearly dead. Some of the games included him drinking ammonia and Clorox, this would burn his throat and his immune system terribly. His mother would starve him for days and sometimes weeks at a time. He got to the point that he needed to steel food from the grocery stores and his classmates lunches. when his mother found out that he stole food, she would make him throw it back up and re-eat it. One of her favorites games that she would play with him was having him eat his baby brothers feces. She started to get worse and worse and no longer considered him as a human or her son, she referred him as an "it", her slave. When he goes to school and teachers ask about his bruises, he is forced to lie because his mother brainwashed him. He always gets punished whenever he does not complete his chores within the time limit she gave him. His only hope and love was from his father. His father would sneak him food whenever his mother was not around. Later down the road when his mother got worse, his father decided to move out and Dave's dreams of hope and love was crushed and no longer existed. He would live down in the basement on an army cot without blankets or a heater. One day, she stabbed him in the chest and he almost died but suffered through the pain. By the end of the book his mother finally got caught and he was sent to a foster home. In the second book called, "the lost boy" is about him moving through foster homes. I found this book extremely interesting because these things really do happen in our everyday life.
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This book is so explicit and really affects a reader's emotions. My sister had told me about this book and I didn't want to believe the treacherous things this woman would do to her son. Definitely a great book!
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