The Lost Boy Analysis

Addressed Issues The author addressed the issues that were talked about in the main points extremely well considering it was coming from his experiences as a boy from twelve to eighteen years of age. In his younger years he noticed the issues but did not understand them till years’ latter when he had experienced them over and over again. The author was able to make connections with how the issues affected him and his choices even before he fully understood what the issue was. An example of this was when he was talking aback on being taken from his school he talked about how the children though he was bad and that there was something wrong with him. This and his abuse caused him to latter not connect well with other children. He was able to

I was able to see how that fact alone divided the child emotionally between relive at being free from the abuse to grief and longing for their family. Though David guilt and struggles I was able to understand that children feel that they are the cause of abuse when they were the last one to be blamed. I had always heard people say that children tend to feel that way in these circumstances but never really sunk into my hart till reading about David blame himself from everything that when wrong with his

Such as the no contact policy that prevents abusive parents from interfering in child life or having any kind of information on the child’s location. Though out much of the book David was effected by a policy that allowed his mother to know everything about him and his life. This made it easy for her to intimidate him and cause conflict with him and his foster parents. This changed after David received a probation officer who tried to keep contact between mother and child from happening. He encouraged David to not call nor did he tell her where David lived. After this David was able to start relaxing somewhat even if at the time he did not realize that this was why his mother stopped coming or calling his foster parents.

Recommendations

I would recommend this book to any student, social worker or even just and every day person who was interested in knowing what it was like for foster children. This book brings the struggles of foster children from being something whispered about behind closed doors out to the light of day. It is because of David that many things have been developed to help for foster children and people both who were abused and those who abuse. The book I am recommending is Behind the Beautiful Forever’s: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Pulitzer Prize. This book talks about families who struggle to