How They Really Feel

Author’s Note: In this essay I will use demonstrate my knowledge of text analysis of the book A Child Called it, By Dave Pelzer, and explain how this books relates to the kids in society today.

Every day, everywhere there are kids that are still getting bullied and abused by many other people that they are too afraid to stand up to. This is exactly how Dave, the main character in the book The Child Called It, by, David Pelzer. He was only 9 years old and he had to experience all of these horrible punishments happen to him by his mother, but his mother treated his son more like a slave than a son. This true novel shows the feelings of kids in society today.

One main reason that Dave never really understood what it meant to have the love from a mother, is because he felt as he were a some useless kid that no one cared about, which is exactly how his mother treated him. Even though there are many kids today that have a family, there are kids today that also don’t feel that close to their own mom. They are many kids that have a closer relationship to their dad than they do with their mom. Since the mom are too busy with the work they do at home or have a job they start to forget to spend time with their kids, which ends up with the dad spending more time with the kids. This can affect kids very much because this just makes them feel more useless and they need to feel wanted from both of their parents.

There’re people out there that will do anything to anybody to make them feel like so unwanted. Since they say and do bad things to them, it effects the person so much that they are unable to talk back to them and get any help from anyone, it only causes them to horrible things to themselves. Just how Dave felt when his mother wouldn’t  let him have any food if he was acting too bad and he would just go sneak out of the house and steal food from the store. “I’ve got to finish the dishes on time, otherwise no breakfast for me; and since I didn’t have dinner last night. I have to make sure I get something to eat” pg. 3 I feel like you shouldn’t treat someone so cruel if they don’t  something specific that you wanted to be done, especially if that person is your own son.

Not only has it effect people to make wrong decisions, but it can make them do many other horrible damage to themselves. Dave’s mom would beat him up so badly for everything little bad that thing that he would commit. For example, she would command him to do something and of he wasn’t paying attention she  would get so upset and yell out “If you don’t finish on time, I’m going to kill you!”pg. 85 But, this shows doesn’t affect Dave at all because she said this too many times to him that he just stopped caring. Just how kids feel today, especially teenagers when they called names and having that same insult getting yelled to them, it stick in their head all the time that they stop caring. Not only in themselves, but in school, family, and friends.

Nobody deserves being in this position, having people other people let them down just having calling them names and making them feel for not to care about anything anymore is just not right. Bullies wouldn’t treat other kids like that of the only knew what it would be like to be in their position, but since they don’t understand what it feels like to have someone make fun of you every day  they think it’s totally fine. If Dave’s mom were to be in Dave’s position she would finally understand and feel how horrible and mistreated Dave has been feeling for all of these years. This is what I think the author’s main purpose for this book, put yourself in others shoes and think before you speak and do any action, to really show how you can affect a person if you don’t take the time to stop and think.

Even though this issue will most likely keep happening, the most important thing to remember is that if we are or if we know someone who is getting bullied we need to tell someone, so kids today don’t feel like this today. According to NBCNEWS 1 in 6 students are getting bullied regularly. This is why kids are feeling the need to harm themselves and do things that they wouldn’t typically do. We should try to prevent people from bullying other kids so they can feel better about themselves and not have to go through this type of punishment every day.