Wednesday, February 20, 2013

How His Life Changed


Author’s Note: In this essay I will explain how Dave changes throughout the book and what he does in order for him to change. Also, how the way he is changing  effects the other people around him.


There’re people still out that desperately need help and need people to talk too. But, they are too afraid to get any help from anyone now a day. That is exactly how Dave the main character  in the book The Child It , by Dave Pelzer, feels . Dave would get abused everyday by his mother for every little mistake he would commit and she would also make him starve if he was too bad for her. He would just sit there quietly and wouldn't say a word. But, throughout the book he becomes more confident and learns how to stand up on his own.


At the beginning of the book, Dave mother’s would treat him like a slave than her own son. Dave would constantly get beat up by his mother and he wouldn’t say any anything about to anyone. The teachers at his school would notice his bruises and cuts on his body but he knew he just had to lie and say how he was the one that hurt himself. But, as he saw the way his father was acting and treating him more like a real son he wanted to be treated like that every day. Since he wanted to be treated like that he decided it was time to talk back to his mother and try to tell her he doesn’t like getting beat up.


Every time Dave would talk try to talk back to his mother this affected his mother more because this would just make her more furious  and want to beat him up more. But, Dave just couldn’t take it anymore with all of the beating by his mother so he just stopped talking back to her mother. Later throughout the book as people noticed how Dave’s been really quiet and sad all the time and he saw all the teachers there for him trying to help, he felt as he actually he had people who cared to him and wasn’t invisible this effected him a lot and gave him more confidence to speak up. He finally told everything to the teachers, how he was treated so horribly and how we wouldn’t eat for days.


As soon as he told them everything the teachers took this to court and he would be sent to an adoption center. When he figured out that he wouldn’t be living with his mother anymore he felt scared and confused at the same time. He knew his mother would get really upset with him and somehow come find and take him back. But, ever since he’s been in the adaptation center he never been happier. Having people talk to him and treat him with love, he never knew that talking to people about his life would make him feel so much better.


Dave reminds me of the main character Bruno  in the book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas  by, John Boyne, because in that story Bruno meets a new friend when he moves into their new house. But, he is too scared to tell his parents about his friend that he meet. He thought that his parents would never let him see him again or even leave the house. Just how Dave felt when he wanted to talk back to his mother he was too scared to do anything he was afraid that his mother would so something horrible to him. Both of them were scared of their own parents and both had a feeling that their parents would do something bad to do them that would affect very much.


Since this book is based on a true story, this story  was meant for people that has gone or is going through the same situation as Dave. The main purpose I think he wrote this book was that if you’re going through a rough time the most important thing is to just talk to someone and tell them what you’re feeling and just let it all out. If Dave wasn’t brave and confident enough to talk to the teachers and tell them what was going on with him he would of never been sent to adoption center and he would still be living with his mother.  But, he knew that it was time for a change and couldn’t keep living like this so he finally spoke out.
            

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