A Child Called ‘It’

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.