MY GOD!!!! The story A Child Called It written by Dave Peltzer is a horrifying memoir he has endured during the ages of 4 through 12. Its probably the saddest story I’ve ever read in a very long time. Anyways this book has the most amazing story of a boys will to survive of an abusive mother who is a alcholic. But she wasn’t always this way.
Dave from the time he was born loved his mother and father. His dad was a fireman in the district of Daily City and his mom was a house wife. They lived happily with his brother. Until his dad job became more demanding and he was out more. Sometimes his mother and father began to drink and his mom must of found comfort in alcohol. His struggle to live by a mentally screwed mother becomes a living nightmare.
At one point in the beginning of the book, he states remembering as the social worker finally takes him away from his nightmare and crazy mother, the sign on the highway
“ THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD”
But it’s a signification that since he's finally free from his abusive home, it’s the most beautiful highway for his free. Also in the book his mom dislocated his shoulder and she just left him to be and put him on the top bunk that night. During the middle of the night she tries to tell him he fell off the bunk bed and she took him to he hospital. Even the doctor knew that was no accident but didn’t say anything. Why didn’t the doctor say anything? So sad to see this..very sad.
All the ways to make things worse, she starts to call his mom a “wicked witch” on page 30. The dramatic change from mother to witch can surely show and prove Dave’s point of view on his mother. At one point his mom drags him in the kitchen and beats him and tell him to take his shirt off. Catherine (his mom) starts the gas burner on and tries to push him on the stove. He fights back long enough that when his brother comes home he only has a few blisters and singes. Either way his mother was probably upset he had won. Dave’s mother had BPD in which she singled out Dave for her own drunk foolish reasons. His mother was an absolute nut job and had no sense of compassion for him. AT ALL. Making him sleep in the garage not to mention starving him to death. Dave Peltzer had the 3rd worst child abuse case in C.A. Now imagine how bad the first worse case was?
From the age of 5 his little mistakes drove his mother crazy. And she has no legitimate reason to punish him as she states on time on page 38 that his is a bad boy and Santa has no gifts for him. What reason is this!? he definitely did not have common sense since all the alcohol drove it out. Dave only found comfort in his father when he came home for then his mother would not beat him. I don’t even know if I’m prepared for the next few years of his life.
-Lhadze
Dave from the time he was born loved his mother and father. His dad was a fireman in the district of Daily City and his mom was a house wife. They lived happily with his brother. Until his dad job became more demanding and he was out more. Sometimes his mother and father began to drink and his mom must of found comfort in alcohol. His struggle to live by a mentally screwed mother becomes a living nightmare.
At one point in the beginning of the book, he states remembering as the social worker finally takes him away from his nightmare and crazy mother, the sign on the highway
“ THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD”
But it’s a signification that since he's finally free from his abusive home, it’s the most beautiful highway for his free. Also in the book his mom dislocated his shoulder and she just left him to be and put him on the top bunk that night. During the middle of the night she tries to tell him he fell off the bunk bed and she took him to he hospital. Even the doctor knew that was no accident but didn’t say anything. Why didn’t the doctor say anything? So sad to see this..very sad.
All the ways to make things worse, she starts to call his mom a “wicked witch” on page 30. The dramatic change from mother to witch can surely show and prove Dave’s point of view on his mother. At one point his mom drags him in the kitchen and beats him and tell him to take his shirt off. Catherine (his mom) starts the gas burner on and tries to push him on the stove. He fights back long enough that when his brother comes home he only has a few blisters and singes. Either way his mother was probably upset he had won. Dave’s mother had BPD in which she singled out Dave for her own drunk foolish reasons. His mother was an absolute nut job and had no sense of compassion for him. AT ALL. Making him sleep in the garage not to mention starving him to death. Dave Peltzer had the 3rd worst child abuse case in C.A. Now imagine how bad the first worse case was?
From the age of 5 his little mistakes drove his mother crazy. And she has no legitimate reason to punish him as she states on time on page 38 that his is a bad boy and Santa has no gifts for him. What reason is this!? he definitely did not have common sense since all the alcohol drove it out. Dave only found comfort in his father when he came home for then his mother would not beat him. I don’t even know if I’m prepared for the next few years of his life.
-Lhadze
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