This book was amazing, one of the best I have ever read. It really had a lot of power over me because I couldn't set it down. As a future teacher I also found this book very insightful to me personally, it gives me a great perspective as to what child abused kids go through and how well they can cover up even the worst of situations. I now feel as if I can cover the situation of abuse better as a teacher.
             The book opens up with the child David, who is meeting with his nurse and soon everyone in his school that knows him and then finally a policeman shows up to free him from the prison he has been in for years. At this point you receive some aspects of what David's mother has done to him but as you get into the book nothing can prepare you to understand why someone would do that to their own child, especially only one and treat the others so well. We learn of his struggles for food, getting stabbed, an episode where he forced to eat his brother's defecation, getting burnt on the stove, being gassed, and his mother's attempts to make him hate himself. His mother turns the world against him very successfully and has the world convinced that she is an amazing mother so no one believes his cries for help and the attempts at help are always failed. It's really sad to watch his father try and help him and then watch him eventually give up as the mother turns to control even him.
             As a future teacher this book as helped me immensely. I now know what some children can go through, and how one can never assume how ones home life really is. In conclusion, I felt this book was amazing and inspirational to all of because there is no other piece of media out there that can make you feel someone else's pain as this one did and make yourself think, if David Pelzer can get through that, my life is not that bad.
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