A Child Called It

A Child Called “It” is a story based on a real life boys tribulations with his mothers shocking abuse. When he was younger Dave and his family were considered the “perfect” family. Then, all of a sudden his mother and father started drinking and had problems in their relationship. Dave started getting the worst treatment imaginable. His mother all of a sudden treated him as a nobody or an “It”. His father wouldn’t do anything about it and it made Dave hate him. She did many horrible things to him that he will never forget. He had two other brothers but they didn’t get any of their mother’s harsh beatings or tortures. David’s mother would starve him weeks at a time without giving him even a morsel of food. He had to steal food from stores and the school to survive. One day he stole hot dogs from the school cafeteria and someone caught him. When he got home his mother made him puke it up and then eat it again. She almost went to the extent of making David eat his baby brother’s feces. Another incident was when David was cleaning the kitchen floor for his mother. She all of a sudde

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Rating: 9

Evaluation

This is one of the best, yet saddest books that I have ever read. The sequel to this book is called “The Lost Boy. He didn’t describe her with as much venom as I thought he would. I would have been filled with so much hatred I wouldn’t have even been able to talk, let alone say that I loved her. He kept telling Dave that he would take him away, but it never happened. If that would have been me I would have described her with so much bitter hatred that it would have been 100 pages longer. The points that I will be evaluating are my least favorite character, how the author (Dave) described his mother, and how the author described the setting. There is so much reality in this book, but I never knew that reality was ever this awful. n stormed into the kitchen and started yelling at him. The story made me cry whenever Dave’s father wouldn’t help him out when he was being tortured by his mom. In one conversation he had with his mother he said, “I know you love me mother because you brought me into this world, and I love you . This story ended with David saying the Lord’s Prayer and praying for God to save him from his living hell. Some people see a dirty unkept person and automatically think that it was his/her own fault for their looks. It brought me to a realization that I have never known before.

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Approximate Word count = 922
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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