A Child Called "IT" By David Pelzer
It's about a boy named David, he talks about how they where like the "Brady Bunch" and then something went horrible wrong with his mother, she just snaps. To me she kind of treated him like a male "Cinderella" , but I think she got treated a lot better than David did. Any way, back to the subject on hand, David's mother puts him through total horror on a daily bases. While his two brothers get to do all the fun stuff. Wow, this is the first time I can really say that eating is the fun stuff, but for him it was.
Now my turn to make pot shots on the dad. What on earth was the dad thinking? It sure wasn't grab the kids and run. No instead throws food to him like he was some kind of dog or something. David loved his dad, but his dad was to much of a pussy to stand up to his wife. He let her do whatever she wanted to poor David. He just drank to forget, How could someone drink and forget about his son? Ok, enough of my male bashing. On another note, How is it that it took schools or anyone so long to realize this kid was starved and beat? Did they really think that he was a bad seed? Couldn't they see that he was hurting inside and out? I have a hard time believing this because in todays world we are taught to look for signs of abuse. Back then we were not shown the signs, we where not educated like we are today. For me, this book was utterly compelling, I couldn't put it down and read it in one night. You will laugh, you will cry and you will learn a lot from reading this book. Can't wait the read the other two books.
