Compare book to reality (aka spread awareness) In the book ,The Lost Boy, David is abused. Children and even adults get abused daily. It’s a serious thing that is happening and, it needs to be stopped. There are so many kinds of abuse: physical, mental, sexual. With David’s story he was abused so badly that sometimes he couldn’t even stand. According to The Lost Boy,”I’m mothers prisoner. I am nine years old, and I've been living like this for years. Everyday it's the same thing. I wake up from sleeping on an old army cot in the garage, perform the morning chores, and if i'm lucky, eat the leftover breakfast.” David's mother was an alcoholic and they still don’t know exactly what triggered her to abuse David so badly. David was ,and still is,one of the worst child abuse cases in California. David wrote these books to spread awareness. In the back of all of his books he puts where you can call for help and, he tells why he wrote his book series. David was starved, physically abused, and mentally abused. I believe that no one should ever …show more content…
In foster care David knows nothing about the outside world. One excerpt from The Lost Boy says,” For a moment Larry seemed to be in a daze. Then he shook his head clear. “And who do you think you are- Dr Spock?” I stopped for a second, thinking of what Larry had just said. Spock?” David didn’t know recent movies or what slang words were. He didn’t know because he had been locked inside his house ,with the only escape being school, for so long. He didn't understand the outside world. All he understood was his mother. Don’t speak unless you're spoken to, sit at the bottom of the stairs until you are summoned, don’t eat food at school. These are all rules David had to follow in order to survive. He thought one hour at a time but, in the real world he had to think years