According to the anonymous critic, “In Literature, evil triumphs but never conquers.” In other words, evil can take over a person for a period of time and have its fun but it won’t ever succeed in the end. This idea is clearly evident as illustrated in A Child Called “IT” by Dave Pelzer.

In Dave Pelzer’s A Child Called “IT”, the mother’s behavior illustrates the truth of the critic’s statement. The protagonist, Dave Pelzer, struggles with his mother, Catherine Roerva, and her antagonizing habit of constantly beating him. Through the author’s use of imagery, the reader is able to feel the hardships of the child and experience how the critic’s statement comes to life through each page of the book. Although the abuse from his mother breaks him down, Dave makes a promise to himself that he would not let her evil ways manipulate him to lose faith in who he is and who he could be. He states, “Her words had no effect on me”(86). Showing his strength in his ability of not letting her evil words get the best of him, he keeps his head held high and tries his best to never lo

Dave might have gone through this feeling of hatred but it had turned out to be only a phase. He began to remember his promise and made sure he didn’t let his mother have the pleasure of seeing him break down. Dave’s mother used to never beat him until one day he was doing mischief with his brothers. She then would beat him when he was bad. Eventually her beatings turned into a habitual thing and became more serious when she would start beating him for her own amusement. She used him as a lab rat by testing out these new ways of torture she would read up on. Some things she had done were burning his arm, making him drink ammonia, and she even stabbed him once. Her beatings were no longer for punishment but it just became an obsession for her. The only way she would beat him was if they were alone so she was always waiting for that moment, and if it didn’t come soon enough, she would make up an excuse to beat him. Sometimes Dave’s father would help him out, but once he left things got worse. Dave’s mother states, “You are all mine now. Too bad your father’s not here to protect you”(152). The fact that Dave did not want to bre

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