I chose the book, The Child Called “It” because one of my friends told me about the book. The whole story line caught my attention. I was amazed at what was going on in this boy’s life. This book, a true story, is very emotional. The title relates to the book because his mother calls the boy, David Pelzer, “It”. She does not call him by his real name. His mother treats him like he is nothing but an object. Also, I think the title fits well because it catches people’s attention and gives a clue what the book is about.

The author is attempting to teach the readers that no one should treat people this badly. David is an innocent child and does not deserve his bad childhood. David does not even do anything wrong, and his mother continued to treat him like an object. Pelzer succeeded in telling how cruel the mother is. He also teaches that people can be cruel to each other, and that it is important to teach people that kindness can go a long way. The whole book discusses his childhood. Pelzer wrote some sequels to tell the rest of his child life for the interested readers.

The story begins when he was first treated badly, in the 1960’s. His mother was a good moth

The main characters are David, his mother, and father. David, the abused child, cannot escape his mother’s punishments. David’s mother is a drunken, abusive mother that refers to her child as “It”. David’s father is caring and understanding, but cannot help David escape. The mother and father drastically change after the alcohol abuse. David also changes in his attitude towards his parents.

The plot is very simple. His alcoholic mother abuses David for the littlest reasons. Not only does he get punished for not doing the dishes, many times his mother doesn’t feed him for days. If he goes to school, she makes him vomit when he gets home to make sure he does not eat at school. David is forced to sleep in the garage or in the basement. He uses an army cot with no covers for a bed. Even in the dead of winter he has no covers to keep warm. She also abuses him by mixing bleach and ammonia and making him stay in the bathroom with the door shut. He also has to lie in the cold tub with his entire body submerged except his nose and mouth for hours at a time. When his family was on vacation, David was forced to eat his little brother’s wastes while the rest of the family was outside playing. David was a seriously abused child and the author made the book t

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