A Child Called It
I n David Pelzer's A Child Called It and A Lost Boy you found yourself engaged in an emotional roller coaster. These books were not only about David's story but about how he managed to survive his abusive mother and find himself while in foster care. Not only do you find yourself totally enthralled with these books you also began to become emotionally involved as well.
In A Child Called It you see David as a boy who is severely abused not only physically but emotionally, mentally and spiritually by his Mother. David is constantly fighting hunger and for the love of his alcoholic mother. Not only does his mother exile him from her love, but from the family as well. His brothers are not allowed to acknowledge him as there brother, but as a slave. Soon his brothers begin to think of him as low as his mother does. Because David is raised in such horrible conditions he becomes what he calls a robot in order to survive his mother's "games". David must think one step ahead of his mother in order to survive.
Not only does his mother treat him like a dog, but his father is was no better. David constantly viewed his father as his saver when he was young; however, as time progressed he discovered that his father was nothing more than a coward who would do nothing to pull his son out of this horrible condition. His father is so brain washed by David's mother he sees David as a nuisance that causes tension in the family. Finally he leaves the family and David behind to survive on his own.
After his Father finally leaves his family, you see David's sprit beguine to down spiral. His "savior" father is gone, which means he is even in more danger of his abusive mother. As time goes on she becomes even more abusive inventing more and more "games" to play with David. His mother's favorite seems to be the gas chamber, where she mixes a bucket of ammonia and Clorox, then locks him in the bathroom to breath in the mixture.
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