Authors Note: While you are reading this, think about child abuse and how it affects the children who are victims.
Monster. That was the only word Dave Pelzer could ever think of when he thought about his mother. The one who took his childhood life and turned it into chaos. The book I am reading is called a child called it, about the worst case of child abuse i have ever heard of.
A Child Called It. This book makes me think of one thing…child abuse. This story reminds me of an article that I read in a newspaper and it was about how a mother wanted to kill her foster children by either poisoning the children’s food or not giving them any food. This article came to my mind when I first started reading A Child Called It because in one chapter David’s mother wouldn’t feed him because he didn’t finish his chores in the time required by his mother.
This book really affected me about why child abuse is really wrong. As I read this I thought about all the children in the world who have or are being abused. For example, when I am at the grocery store I sometimes see kids acting up and screaming, and then they get slapped because they were being bad. Those are the kind of things that make me wonder what happens when the parent and the child aren’t out in public, even though the child getting hit in the grocery store probably isn’t getting abused at home. The book A Child Called It has really changed the way that I think about child abuse.
Outside of what reminds me of this book, how about what really happens in this world. About 1,500 kids die each year from being abused and about 140,000 children were found in a case of child abuse that were hurt from being abused. Also, about 1.7Million reports of child abuse are reported this past year. I for one think that David Pelzer (boy in the story) was one of the bravest child abuse victims. He went through so much child abuse for about 9 whole years until his school nurse found out.
As I read A Child Called It, I learned that there is so much child abuse in his world. In my opinion A Child Called It was one of the best, most descriptive yet worst case of child abuse in history.
