David’s mother would starve him weeks at a time without giving him even a morsel of food. He had to steal food from stores and the school to survive. One day he stole hot dogs from the school cafeteria and someone caught him. When he got home his mother made him puke it up and then eat it again. She almost went to the extent of making David eat his baby brother’s feces. Another incident was when David was cleaning the kitchen floor for his mother. She all of a sudden stormed into the kitchen and started yelling at him. “You’

This book was very good, but reality orientated. I had no idea that actual people have and are going through this torture. This book made me have a more open mind to kids that are outcasts. Some people see a dirty unkept person and automatically think that it was his/her own fault for their looks. I have decided that it isn’t always the kid’s fault for their looks or their actions, they could be in as much trouble as Dave was in.

ve made my life a living hell!” she sneered. “Now it’s time I show you what hell is like!” Right after she said that she took him by the arm, turned on the gas stove, and burned the flesh on his arm. She then proceeded to make him take off his clothes and lay on top of the flames.

The way that Dave described his mother was actually pretty shocking. He didn’t describe her with as much venom as I thought he would. If that would have been me I would have described her with so much bitter hatred that it would have been 100 pages longer. In one conversation he had with his mother he said, “I know you love me mother because you brought me into this world, and I love you.” That statement made me a little angry because she had ju

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