A Child Called "It"

A Child Called “It” Book Summary In the story, A Child Called It, a little boy searches for the love of a family that will love him forever. It is a book that can leave some emotionally scarred. The author Dave Pelzer wrote this autobiography about his traumatic experience with abuse from his alcohol addicted mother. When Dave was a young boy he had a family, and they loved each other. One day his mother started drinking, and became an addict. Dave was around six years old when the worst of it…

then I was more afraid of being held back and not moving on with the three of my friends to the next grade. I didn’t care about my grades anymore because I thought why bother even trying if I can’t even learn the material being taught to me. A Child Called It Dave Pelzer says, “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” (98). What Pelzer is saying is true, I greatly agree with what he just said, because everyone’s childhood should be…

My view of the novel “The child called it” It is one of the most harsh child abuse cases in California history. It is the autobiography of David Pelzer who was physically and emotionally abused by his mentally disturbed mother, who played sick games that left him nearly dead. The psychological scars left on his mind and memory and will be accompanied him for the rest of his life. The events take place generally at Dave’s house in ordinary two-floor home in Daly City, California where David…

A Child Called “It” is an inspirational story that is written by Dave Pelzer. He gives the insight of his child hood and the struggle that he had to go through in order to live day by day. He talks about his family in an appropriate way that makes anyone understand the harassment that he was faced with as a very young child. Pelzer goes through many types of abuse that would have made any human break but he had the will power to stay strong and do what he needed to do to stay alive. Pelzer is a…

At first, David did live a healthy and normal life with his parents and brothers. His mother, however, unexpectedly transformed into a monster and started to become an alcoholic, venting her anger on her own helpless child David. He was submerged in freezing cold water, slept in the basement under the stairs, forced to eat his own vomit, stabbed, starved, and forced to sit on a burning stove . Those were just a few of the torturous and cruel games that his mother used…

Author and public speaker Dave Pelzer, in his book, A Child Called “It”, recalls his distressing childhood being tortured by his mother. Pelzer’s purpose is to bring awareness to the amount and severity of child abuse in the world while communicating to every individual that they can overcome any hardship with enough will. He adopts a bitter, yet relieved, tone in order to duplicate the emotions himself and others have in abusive relationships in his abundance of readers. Dave Pelzer utilizes…

project are A Child Called “It” and The Catcher in the Rye. A Child Called “It” was written by Dave Pelzer in 1995, only 20 years ago, but is set back in the early 1970’s, about forty years ago. It…

The book “A child called it” was published in 1997 and gives a look at the torture and horrific events that happened in the main character “David’s” life. It shows how David went from being in a loving family, to being the outcast of the family and getting abused in ways you wouldn’t think were possible by his mother. When first reading the book it goes backwards telling you how he finally gets out of the hell house and as the chapters go on it explained how everything went from a loving family…

The book I chose to read was “A Child called it” by Dave Pelzer. It is the real- life story of the author Dave Pelzer from age 4 to 12. He was brutally beaten, starved and emotionally destroyed by his alcoholic mother. She played tortuous games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother’s game in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son or a boy, but an “it”. Even though Dave had two older brothers, his mother’s rage was solely directed towards him. I…

Often works of literature include characters that change as a result in a particular event. One such work is A Child Called “ It” by David Pelzer. This memoir takes place in Daly city, a small town in California, where David grew up in a happy, warm and safe environment. One unfortunate day changed that all. In A Child Called “It”, David Pelzer, an American was changed by a horrific event that left him scarred for life; Davids change is important to the work of literature. When Dave was a young…