Book Review of Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard In Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard the authors are Eve Krupinski and Dana Weikel. The subject of the book is about child abuse and how people do not take action against it. The format is a mix of first and third person, it shows the point of view of three different people, and is based on a true story. Eve Krupinski and Dana Weikel are people that wanted to bring attention to child abuse and how to stop it. They wrote this book to “to goad people into doing something to stop child abuse and to give the Altamonte Springs girl and those like her a voice” (Wersinger, 2008, p. 1). The title links to the subject matter of this book by showing people how child abuse is not stopped
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I think this because it clearly identifies the problem of child abuse, and it clearly states what needs to be done to stop it. Adults that read this book will know about he problem and know how to stop the problem. This book does the job that it says it will.
Summary of the Content Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard is about a five year old girl named Ursula Sunshine Assaid. It details the last week of Ursula 's life, and how her step father abused her while her mother watched and did nothing to stop him. It details each day of the week and what abuse Ursula had to go through. Some of the abuse was to eat nothing but soap, not have any water, stand in the same
BOOK REVIEW OF DEATH FROM CHILD ABUSE AND NO ONE HEARD 3 place for hours, not sleep, walk in circles for hours, recite numbers and letters for hours with punishment if she messed up, not being allowed to use the bathroom, being verbally and emotionally abused, and being physically abused. She ended up dying for the torture she endured and her step father and mother hid her body in a pond. Her mother eventually told police and they were put in …show more content…
Since it details the last week of Ursula 's life, it shows how one adult could have saved her. Another example would be part two of the book when it talks about the first effort to protect a child. “The first effort to protect a child by legal intervention in America was in 1874. Little Mary Ellen was a nine year old girl who was indentured to Francis and Mary Connolly. She was being whipped daily … Etta Wheeler, a concerned, caring woman did not relent in her struggle to rescue the child … Mary Ellen was removed from the home … was adopted by a new family and with the nurturing she received, began to thrive” (Krupinski & Weikel, 1986, p. 98). This quote shows that with the intervention of an adult, a child can be rescued from the abuse they endure. This supports the argument for an adult to intervene when they see child abuse because it shows that an adult needed to intervene in order to save the
I think this because it clearly identifies the problem of child abuse, and it clearly states what needs to be done to stop it. Adults that read this book will know about he problem and know how to stop the problem. This book does the job that it says it will.
Summary of the Content Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard is about a five year old girl named Ursula Sunshine Assaid. It details the last week of Ursula 's life, and how her step father abused her while her mother watched and did nothing to stop him. It details each day of the week and what abuse Ursula had to go through. Some of the abuse was to eat nothing but soap, not have any water, stand in the same
BOOK REVIEW OF DEATH FROM CHILD ABUSE AND NO ONE HEARD 3 place for hours, not sleep, walk in circles for hours, recite numbers and letters for hours with punishment if she messed up, not being allowed to use the bathroom, being verbally and emotionally abused, and being physically abused. She ended up dying for the torture she endured and her step father and mother hid her body in a pond. Her mother eventually told police and they were put in …show more content…
Since it details the last week of Ursula 's life, it shows how one adult could have saved her. Another example would be part two of the book when it talks about the first effort to protect a child. “The first effort to protect a child by legal intervention in America was in 1874. Little Mary Ellen was a nine year old girl who was indentured to Francis and Mary Connolly. She was being whipped daily … Etta Wheeler, a concerned, caring woman did not relent in her struggle to rescue the child … Mary Ellen was removed from the home … was adopted by a new family and with the nurturing she received, began to thrive” (Krupinski & Weikel, 1986, p. 98). This quote shows that with the intervention of an adult, a child can be rescued from the abuse they endure. This supports the argument for an adult to intervene when they see child abuse because it shows that an adult needed to intervene in order to save the