A Child Called It By David Pelzer

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

One of the most traumatizing child abuse cases in Californian history occurred to a boy named David Pelzer. During the majority of his childhood, Pelzer was severely mistreated and abused by his alcoholic mother and absent father. The young boy endured such tragedy and heartbreak from the rejection of his own family for almost a decade. His life story was later shared in his profound autobiography called A Child Called It. The author himself takes you on a journey to first handedly experience the neglect he once suffered. Throughout the novel, there is an evolution within the protagonist that gives him the strength to finally break free.

Words and actions have a large impact on the way you work with the world around you, they have the ability to make you feel indescribable emotions in every way. The poem “Little Boy,” written by B.H. Fairchild begins as a young boy questions his father’s hurtful past, as the speaker demonstrates that he asked the questions as he would’ve asked if he ever saw “Dimaggio or Mantle,” and develops into an examination of a lifeless relationship between father and son. In the poem the little boy’s persistent focus on the father’s brutal past reveals a case of PTSD from his involvement in WWII, and how it affects the advancement of an already bad and unsteady and unchanging relationship of a father and son.

     The conflict of the story was Dave’s mother. She was cruel and unloving. She would drink and abuse Dave. For some reasons she never beat any of her other kids. Every time he stood up to her she would tell him he was a nobody or an “it”. She did cruel things for no reason. For example one time she tried putting him on the stove to burn him. Other times she would make a gas out of ammonia and Clorox in the bathroom and lock him in there for hours. The climax of the story is when people at school start noticing cuts and bruises on David. When a social worker is sent to his house, his mother starts treating him with love and pretends she’s sorry. Dave believes it and doesn’t say anything when the social worker comes. Dave thinks his dreams have come true and is very happy not knowing when the social

A Child Called “It” is a powerful book written by Dave Pelzer about his childhood and the hardships he encountered with his family, peers, and community. Middle childhood can be a life altering point in a young child’s life, which many theorist have studied over the years. This paper will review a few of those theorist thoughts, and how their theories apply to young David’s childhood. The theorist work that will be covered will be Bronfenbrenner and his ecological systems model, Piaget’s theory of development, and lastly Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning. It is important to understand what was going through David’s mind as he dealt with this trauma and how he was able to survive it.

This paper evaluates how David Pelzer develops in his memoir, A Child Called “It”. Pelzer is evaluated using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model demonstrates how Pelzer’s environment impacted his development greatly. Pelzer is greatly influenced through others by how they treat him. Throughout this memoir, Pelzer is in the concrete operations stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. The reader is also able to see Pelzer’s development from preconventional morality to conventional morality using Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning.

In this novel A Child Called It written by David Pelzer, he experiences child abuse from his drunk mother. The novel looks at the author's relationship with his mother. Pelzer's family was terrible with him. David was left out of his family and was treated like a slave. His mother never lets him play with his brothers and never let him do anything fun.

I would like to bring to your attention that the book “A Child Called “it” by David Pelzer, was announced banned in 2013 because students at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Washington, had to have parental permission to check out this best-selling memoir because of its graphic nature of child abuse described by the author. It was first challenged because of the foul language and the grotesque and violent scenes where the mother would beat the son. I think that this is absurd because I think students should be able to read books of this topic because it educates them of the disturbing acts of what an abusive parent can do. I don’t think that we should shelter older children because they should be introduced to these those types of scenarios. It also gives students an insight of what some other children have to go through.

His world is full of starvation and torture unknowing what his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother is planning to do next. His school picks up on the signs and eventually calls the police and David is put into foster care and is never to return to

A Child Called It is a book about one of the most severe child abuse cases in California. The book is written in first person, by the author, David `Dave' Pelzer. The main characters in this story include Dave, his father, his

A Child Called “It” was a heart breaking true story about a young child that found will to survive one of the worst child abuse cases that have ever been reported in California history (Pelzer 3). Pelzer who was the young boy in the story that lived in a devastating world of torture, starvation, and cruelty from the age of four until he was rescued by school officials at the age of twelve. This book will inspire all who

A Child Called It, is an astonishingly horrific true story of “one child’s courage to survive”. Once said “Such a story cannot fail to move.” this is exactly how I felt about this book. Dave Pelzer the author and protagonist of A Child Called It tells the story of his life as one of the worst seen cases of child abuse in the state of California. Dave’s mental strength and resilience is what truly drives the theme of the story and the physical and mental abuse that he had to endure.

In the book The Boy Who Dared by Susan Bartoletti, Helmuth Hubener is in prison and flashes back to when he was a young boy in Germany. Helmuth remembers being stopped by an officer and being asked if he would fight for his motherland (Germany) when he is older. He says yes and loves the idea of fighting for his country. In his next flash back, he remembers being in grade school and finding out that Hitler was elected. He is very excited and when he leaves his school, he sees a leaflet and picks it up.

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 doors. Dave dreamed of finding a family to love him and call him their son. It took years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dreams and make something of himself. A Child Called 'It' covers the early years of

     Like Death From Child Abuse . . . And No One Heard, the outside world does nothing to help out a small child suffering from various forms of abuse. The few people who took notice were David’s teachers and the school nurse. Yet it took them a considerable amount of time to