A Child Called It By Dave Pelzer

A Child Called “It” That child that was called “It “or the “boy” has a name. That boy, now a grown man is named Dave Pelzer. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure what I wanted my choice of book to be. After the suggestion of this book, I decided it on it. I was intrigued to learn about Dave’s story when I briefly learned what he went through. As well as him being a young boy, and his story being an extreme case of abuse with him surviving it. Dave’s strength on survival to live another day and come out on top. Knowing that led me to have a strong interest in his story.

Young Dave lived an all-American family lifestyle of the 1960’s for only a partial amount of their childhood before things changed. Before the change, he considered his family the

Their dad was a fireman, while their mom was the perfect stay at home mother. Their mother was an amazing cook, a clean fiend, took almost every holiday seriously, and loved her family with every bone in her body. They had multiple pet animals for a while, and went on endless family vacations and day outings. The Pelzer family overall lived happily at one point in their life. Things radically changed at home. Their mother ultimately became two different people when the verbal and physical abuse begin to occur. At some points, their mother would be the Susie home-maker, and other times she would drink her days by. Laying around in her pajamas, drinking alcohol, and heating leftovers. As well as her voice, it would be sweet and nurturing at times. While other times, her yelling would frighten them so. While their father was away, she would unleash on them. Endless yelling at her three sons Ron, Stan, and Dave. Which ultimately turned into physical abuse towards Dave. It started with smashing his face against a mirror and smearing it across the glass. The second incident was a bloody nose, the result of a harsh smack to his young face. It got extremely worse from then on out, the level of abuse was jaw dropping. The

I learned and realized that he is the prime example of resilience. To go from living a great childhood to a living hell in the same house. To be verbally and physically abused for numerous years as a young child, and still fight to survive is amazing. Also learning that you could be treated terribly by the person you love, and still yearn for them even then. Not only did Dave’s mother abuse him, but the rest of his siblings and his father turned their back on him over time. It deeply hurt him having to deal with that as well, but it just made him understand that he’s completely on his own now. That there’s no one to look out for him but himself. I could tell that Dave thought there was no one or nothing out there that could help him. The whole time though there were people that were ready to save him. Again, his resilience resonates through his story. Dave thought of multiple ways to make it each day. Even when he silently wanted his mother to kill him off he kept