A Child Called It Summary

A Child Called “It” The book I read was “A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer. This book was an autobiography about a childhood that was full of misery. Dave, the main character, was a little boy and his mother abused him horribly. In the book, he explains what had happened to him. Dave always thought about how if he did not do the dishes no breakfast. Breakfast was important to him, because he did not get much food. The night before he did not have dinner so he was starving by this point. The breakfast he was usually given was his brothers left over cereal. The safe place for Dave was school, but he always had to lie about the black eyes and fat lips or his mother would hurt him the worst that night. Dave says, “it was a kind of lifestyle that grew

Dave's punishments began to evolve. It started with having to sit in a corner of the bedroom, and progressed to the "mirror treatment," in which she would smash his face against the mirror and force him to say he was a bad boy. One Christmas, he only received a couple of gifts, and none from his immediate family. His mother told his brothers that Santa only brings gifts to good children.Things went a step farther when she turned on the stove and held his arms in the flame, telling him, "You've made my life a living hell, now it's time I showed you what hell is like!” (Pelzer 28). When his brothers and father went to the super slide, however, Dave was not allowed to go because at this point he was not a family member. His mother called him inside and smeared one of his infant brother Russell's soiled diapers all over his face, for allegedly making too much noise outside. She insisted that he eat it, but he used one of his tactics, slowing her down until Russell starts to cry and the rest of the family coming back distracted her. Abusing with words, starvation, hitting, breaking, burning, and beating went on and on. He was