The story is based on a true story of the
author’s early years of his life. The struggle, deprivation and despair dream of
one’s child determination survive.
As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and
starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played
tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her sons nearly dead. She no
longer considered him a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an ‘it’. His bed
was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and,
when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs’ bowl. The
outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed.
Some child abuse victims stay quietly locked
in their shells. They look the other way, believing that by not acknowledging
their past it will go away. However, the author is able to continue his
dreadful story in an admirably dispassionate style.
J It is genuinely bring the readers
deep into the doom of one’s feeling.
