David Pelzer Character

When a child is beaten, yelled at, and neglected; how do they handle it? David Pelzer is a son to a once wonderful woman, Catherine Pelzer. Catherine liked to cook exotic meals,keep their house tidy, decorate it, and travel with her family. She had three kids and was happily married.. Her husband, Stephen, works for the fire department. He put everything into his job. Soon that’s all that he has left. How does the perfect mother turn so malign? How do David and everyone else handle it? David was a scrawny, unhealthy kid. He was haggard and scarred from all of the malicious punishments the his mother gave him. She would make him do all of the chores, and they left him with red, peeled, feeble hands from all of the chemicals he used. One time

He is always trying to be involved with everyone: trying to impress them... When he went to his first few foster homes, he was always one of the youngest. He would go to grocery and convenience stores, deftly stealing objects to impress his friends and older foster siblings. He was trying to fit in with the other kids, because that’s what they would do. David was also short-tempered, always confused, and protective. When David would talk about his past with either his social worker, psychiatrist, or one of his foster parents, he would often get very mad and flustered because he didn’t understand what was happening or why it was happening. When someone was doing something he didn’t like, he would let them know by scolding them. David is also very creative. When his mother would punish him he always tried to come up with something clever to avoid it or make it less harsh. He would do this until his mother caught him, then he would come up with another plan. David would notice patterns in what she did and used that against her. David is inspiring in the ways he

He would do crazy things like stealing, and those things eventually led up to something twenty times as bad. David was transferred from school to school and had a hard time making friends. At one school he wanted to join a gang, but he had to convince them that he was worthy to join their gang. So they made him take a pencil after school, and pop the tires of a teacher’s car. He only popped one and wouldn’t follow through with it but they still accepted him. The leader was named John, and he knew that David always had his back. He told David that he was going to burn down the school and that he needed David’s help. Soon every student in the school knew that David had some master plan, but they didn’t know what the details were. Nothing happened for so long that David completely forgot about the plan. One day as David was walking into school he smelled smoke. He went searching for it and found John by a fire trying to put it out. David went in to help him put out the fire, and John ran away. As David was trying to put out the fire a little girl walked by and saw the fire. David instructed her, “Pull the alarm! Go get help!” The little girl ran away screaming, “I’m telling!” He heard the fire alarm go off. He would later be running from the police and hid out in John’s tree house for awhile. Although David did wrong being involved with John, he tried doing the right thing and putting out the fire. He would always end up