Analysis Of A Child Called It By Dave Pelzer

There is plenty of wrong in the world, however, with your own life going so well you may not realize how bad it may be for others. You have wrote your own story, and without asking others their’'s you will never be able to understand what is going on in the background. This all relates to the story by Dave Pelzer called A Child Called “It” (1993) about his life as a kid and his abuse mother that would play sadistic games with him that would leave him almost dead. This biography was told in California in 1972 and actually starts out describing the day the author was actually saved from his life of torture. After it explains the day he became “free” it flashbacks to the beginning and tells all the ways he was brutally beaten and starved by

The author illustrates the time in Dave’s life when everything was actually good because his mother wasn’t always as sick as she becomes. Dave writes, “Mom told me she was crying because she was so happy to have a real family,” (23) when talking about a Christmas before his two little brothers came along and things got bad. However, after the mother gets “sick” (as Dave says multiple times in the book) the persona he gives his mother is this horrible woman that almost kills her own son. She starves, beats, and tortures him everyday like it is her personal routine. The reader begins to feel that she is a horrid woman, that doesn’t deserve life herself, however, in a way some readers may feel bad for her. You begin to realize that maybe she does this because her marriage isn’t doing great, so she needs someone to blame for it, and since Dave was the only other one around when the marriage was good she goes after him. . Even though, the only reason her husband eventually leaves is because she’s so terrible to not only Dave but his dad as well. This being because Dave’s dad actually tried to help him against his mother, however, in a way he is also given the persona of a horrid person because he never actually does anything to get Dave out of the situation and gives him false hope by telling him one day they will get away from the hell together.

The use of imagery comes out all the time in the book and at times it is very vivid. In fact, when my own mom read this book, she wasn’t even able to finish it because it was too much for her. With the way Dave describes being tortured and hurt, it makes the readers feel beaten down themselves because they can’t do anything for him in his story. The images he makes his readers imagine are things like the scene where his mom stabs him, when she makes him inhale toxic chemicals, or even when she starves him then makes him puke to see if he’s been eating. Dave illustrates, “ Mother began creeping towards me…[eventually] Mother rammed the cold spoon of ammonia into my throat,” (75) explaining one of the first times his mother makes him drink ammonia. He continues, “I became terrified, tears of panic streamed from my eyes and I began to feel myself drift away…[and soon] knew i was going to die.” (75). Just reading that small part makes you able to image everything happening. With the way the author describes the cold spoon and how he becomes terrified and crying makes you able to try and imagine what is happening in your head. It also brings out the emotion I talked about earlier and makes you want to just go hit his mother over the head yourself. His use of imagery makes you want to save him yourself. The way his imagery is so successful is his way of words and