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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