Summary of A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer :: essays research papers

A Child Called ItYou are a nobody An It?(Pelzer 140). These were the raw, disheartened remarks that came from the disgusting coldhearted baffles mouth. These irritationful hurting remarks at her son was how the book got its epithet and thats what interested me in reading this book. A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer, is a life-changing story about, a young boy who is starved, beat, and tortured by his mother and her savage games, yet he manages to turn his life around when he grows up. This young boy uses his faith, self-discipline, and will power to overrule his mothers destruction and life damaging obstacles.David was a young boy who got beaten everyday. He was very skinny, bony, and was beaten everyday. David wore threadbare clothing, he looked as if he hadnt changed or washed his clothes in months. This was the truth, his mother starved him and abused him. She never washed his clothes to embarrass him. This worked at first when people started making fun of him, but David got used to it. Bullies started beating the jagged boy up everyday, it became a routine, but he was so frail and weak from being starved he couldn?t fight back. David looked muddled, he had a very terrible physical journey that made him mentally stronger.Loving God and hating his own mother kept David strong. David loved God, he prayed every iniquity to God. He hated his mother so much he wanted to outthink her tricks, he did. He used different tactics like over exaggerating his pain when he got beat, putting a wet cloth over his mouth when his mother put cleaning products in a room with him. David kept computation time in his head in order to make the time pass faster.