A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive
Author: David Plezer
Publisher: Health Communications
Year: 1997
ISBN: 1558743669
David is going through hard times where his mother does hard punishments on him. she treats him like a nobody. David would pray to god at first to help him out and give him a hand to take him out of his misery. Then he just lost hope and then suddenly he decided to let out a lot of hate towards god. He would think that god hated him like everybody else does. The mother would do punishments to David such as one called "gas chamber" which is a mixture she would do of ammonia and Clorox. Then she would also beat him with hand or once or twice beat him with dog chain. She once lost control and didn't seem to know what she was doing that she stabbed David. David lives in an unsafe environment where his mother brainwashes everyone near them to not believe what David says and think he's gets punished because he's a bad kid. He would steal food at school from classmates because he wouldn't get fed properly he would just get scraps of leftover cereal from his 2 brothers. He lives in a environment where nobody really cares about him. I would say this is a touching story. Its a touching story because it tells about a real person and the bad experience it had to go through. It tells about what David had to go through which is child abuse and that's tough. And its way more tough where he has nobody by his side and he has to confront child abuse by himself. Well this story opens your eyes. It also makes you see the world in a different way. Then it also makes you think in a different way. For me this book changed me and the way I think. It made me be thankful for everything I have even though I may not have much. Then again I'm thankful that I didn't have to struggle through child abuse like David did. But to me he's a an idol to look up to. H e was strong and even though in the book he seem hopeless he kept strong and never lost hope and faith in keep on living. H e never really wanted to please his mother and let her know she was defeating him.
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