The Lost Boy Book Report

I read the last page of books first to see if they are worth reading. It goes against what most people believe but it helps know if you are going to be accepting of how a book ends. The book The Lost Boy by David Pelzer ended in a way that made it worth reading and throughout the book it held up to the expectation of how the book will make the reader feel by the very end of the book. The author of the book lost boy is David Pelzer. David wrote a book series of three books including A Child Called It, The lost boy, and A Man Named Dave. The second book lost boy was written to explain what his life was like while he was in foster care. He wishes to show people how “The system” did very well for him: “As an adult survivor, I am forever grateful to “The System” that so many in society ridicule without mercy” (184). He wrote of this side of the story to show people that foster children should not be seen as bad children, as well as to show that social workers are not “home wreckers who barge into a private residence and pluck a child from the arms of a loving parents” (184). To write this book he had to go through a difficult childhood with an abusive mother until teachers started to notice the bruises then he became a member of the state and put into foster care. Without his experiences that he had as a kid he would not have been able to …show more content…
David Pelzer puts the images of everything from the homes he is in at the time down to the courtroom that he sits in. The way that he describes every situation happens keeps you at the edge of your seat because he is either getting into trouble with the law or just within the homes themselves. Detailing each situation with all the information needed to know for the time and place makes the book very easy to read and want to come back