Child Abuse In When She Was Good By Norma Fox Mazer

The book When She was Good by Norma Fox Mazer is fiction. In the book Em the main character has been through many challenges in her 14 years of life but the greatest challenges started to happen after her mother died about 5 years ago.In those 5 years her father left the family and only put money in the bankacount for Em and her older sister Pamela to pick up. 4 years after their mother die, Pamela had died poor Em was left alone, she was used to being alone because Pamela would drag her around by her hair banging Em’s head on on the floor for no reason. Em would go and cry alone in her room and stay there for hours or days only coming out for food and water. This book is about Em’s family has always abused her,the only member that did not abuse her is her mother who passed away almost 6 years ago by the end of the book.This books social issue is child abuse and neglect.

When her mother died everything changed for Em, her father started doing drugs and drinking, sometimes he would not be home for days. After a year or two Pamala and Em’s father left. Pamela took this very hard. She decided to take it all out on pour Em. She would drag her around by her braids banging her head on the floor. In the book it says “Her big hand whipping through the air. Right cheek. Left cheek.” This shows how Pamela abused Em. It also shows that it was not just verbally it was physically