a child called it
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I read a really touching book called A Child Called "It" by David Pelzer. In this book, David tells the story of his childhood and his relationship at home with his mother and his will to survive her abuse. David Pelzer was an abused child whose mother turned from a sweet, loving mother, to an abusive and destructive alcoholic. David tells his everyday experiences and the new and treacherous "punishments" his mother gives him on a daily basis. David relays his horrific stories of being forced to sleep in the garage, tricked into suffocating from ammonia, and even in the most extreme extents his mother took, being stabbed. Besides being painfully beat for no real reason at all, David finds the strength even as a young boy to outsmart his mother and hold onto the will to survive and seek a better future filled with the love he once found in his mother. Also as punishment for not finishing his chores, David is not fed, which resorts to him stealing food at school and from stores. He runs to school and s known as the smelly boy with the torn clothes with bruises all over his body. He goes through being degraded and referred to as "it" and no longer part of his own family. Throughout his childhood David struggles to keep his destructive life at home a secret from others...