The Effects Of Abuse In A Child Called It By David Pelzer

“Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.”-“A Child Called It” by David Pelzer-the self written story about his survival. As a child he lived under the abusive hands of his mother, suffering through abuse such as starvation, burns, and being stabbed, and suffocated. His abuse lasted years, and had many effects on David psychologically, Emotionally, and Socially. These many years of abuse also affected him developmentally. Here we will look in depth how all the contributing factors led to his uprising, and how the abuse developed in the Pelzer family.
Throughout A Child Called It, we see many examples of emotional abuse, and witnessed first hand how it affected david as a child. Emotional