The book i just finished reading is called "a child called it" is based on a true story.Is an autobiography by Dave Pelzer.After reading this book i still don't understand why Dave's mom would do such thing to torture their own child just because of pleasure. The author Dave had a lot of courage to survive his mom's torture game but I don't understand why there was a time that his mom really took care of him and i don't know why she change.Is it because Dave's parent always argue because of Dave,i really don't know.Dave would still get beaten everyday for his food so when he have a chance to eat he would eat as fast as possible before his mom would change his mind.What make this book so interesting is when Dave gets torture he try his hardest to fight to survive.One of the sickest torture his mom would do is to put a bucket,filled with a mixture of ammonia and Clorox, in the bathroom with Dave.This would make Dave collapsed and start spitting up.Dave is very smart, he put the bucket as far away as possible so he couldn't smell the chemical but is a seal room so he wet his rag in the toilet(because he don't his mom to hear the sink turn on) and cover his face with it.Dave's plan didn't help him much after the "GAS CHAMBER" treatment, Dave cough up blood for an hour.
1. What was the author's purpose(s) in writing this book, and how can you tell? How well was this purpose achieved?I think the author's purpose of writing this book is because he want to share his experience of his childhood and to spread the idea of child abusing.During the book Dave explains how he would used to get torture and how he fight to survive it.when the book is finished you can see that the author wrote his personal perspectives on child abusing.In Dave's perspective he wrote about the purpose of writing this book and one of his main reason is to mobilize Americans to create a country where it won't hut to be a child.He also explains that how his story will"help people understand that our child abuse crisis goes far beyond excessive spanking ".Dave's story is really touching and sad so in November of 1994, Dave was the only united states citizen to be awarded as one of the Outstanding Young Persons of the World, in Kobe japan.His book was the #1 International bestseller in 1995 and after his book were published, he become as one of the nation's most effective an respected communicators addressing corporate groups.His also known as a conventions and human-service professional.In the book Dave talked about how lonely his childhood was and how he thought he was going to be his mom's slave forever, i think Dave's childhood must be really painful and sad.In Dave's point of view he thinks that most parent abuse their child is because of their everyday life frustrations on society or those he or she may love.I think that child abusing will just lead to kids running away from home and kids getting hurt or died just because of their parent want to express their emotions.I think the author really achieved his purpose of why he wrote this book.He got spread
8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.My favorite character is Dave because his really strong and he have a lot of courage to survive.Dave always think so positive even in sad cases he always daydream how his life is going to get better and how his dad is going to come one day and save him from that house so his life won't be this bad.Dave really don't have a problem with his dad but i remember in one of part the book when Dave's mom was making Dave eat the bowl of regurgitated hot dogs and his dad was right next to him just watching and stood there.Dave said "At that moment i hated mother to no end, but i hated father even more". I think this is the quote i remember the most through out the whole book maybe because i really got the message to that quote. Dave would always think of his mom back in when he was a child, how she took care of him and i think even through his mom beat on him all the time, Dave would still have care for his mother.In the book Dave didn't mention a lot about his brothers maybe because they didn't get beat on.I still don't know why Dave's mom would only hit and torture Dave but not his brother.In Dave's childhood there were a lot of good time, liked when their whole family went on a trip to Guerneville by the way that the author explain this trip, it sounds like he really enjoyed those times. He also had a bad time during the Russian River trip, during the trip Dave's mom suspend Dave to go to the river with his dad and brothers.When Dave was alone in the RV with his mom ,his mom made her own son eat one of Russell's(Dave's little brother)soiled diapers.Of course Dave denied to eat that, than his mom would ended up smacking him.Dave is one of my favorite character of of the book because he had so much courage to survive.
Through out this book i learn a lot on child abusing.This is definitely the best child abusing book i ever read.I strongly recommend this book for other people because i think ever one who read this book will feel bad for the author at some point and the author really know how to send message through his story by writing.Lastly,by the way that the author writes you can tell how much he wish for a normal family when he was a little kid.
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