The Autobiographies Of David Pelzer's The Boy

Unlike most authors, David Pelzer did not attend university. All of his success was self made through hard work and tremendous dedication. Instead of becoming a delinquent from the time he had spent in the foster care system, he took all of his years of suffering and made them into an autobiography. This ended up inspiring many and making awareness of children who have not had the best childhood experiences. After he had been released from foster care at the age of eighteen he enlisted into the Air Force . He remained in the Air Force for two years before he got married and had a son. Unfortunately, his marriage did not last long. After his first marriage ended he served in the Gulf War as a fighter pilot (“Dave Pelzer”). David overcame his

His writings have earned him a place on New York Times Bestseller List for several years (“Dave Pelzer”). Since he published his first autobiography A Child Called “It” in 1995 David Pelzer has written many more outstanding autobiographies about his life. He has written a total of eight books. All of his works have discussed how his unimaginable childhood led to the rest of his life has played out. His second book The Lost Boy came out as a sequel to his first autobiography. He continued to explain to his readers how the affect of child abuse led into his teen years and how he dealt with a enormous change in his life when he was put into foster care at the age of twelve until he was eighteen. He then followed his sequel with a trilogy called A Man Named Dave. This trilogy told the story of how David became an adult and took his depressing childhood and made it a story of how he turned into a survivor. He was not a delicate child that could be hurt anymore, he was a man that had been

Everything was falling even further downhill. His father was leaving home often barely even staying for a meal at this time. When he was home he would tell David how he was going to get them out of the house, but they were just empty promises. His father would often spend time at the local bars. One day his father had enough and he left for good. When his father was gone his mother developed a new punishment where she made him remove his clothing and lay in a bathtub filled with freezing water. It was also around this time when the school was concerned with David and decided to send social services to his house for an evaluation. A few days before they arrived his mother pretended that she was a loving mother again and that led him to lie to the social services woman and say that his mother had never hurt him. After the woman left, it was back to the abuse. The end of the book reveals that David has lost his faith. He hated his whole family because of what he has gone through. He even questions if there is a God. (A Child Called