Essay about A Child Called IT

David Pelzer was finally freed from his abusive home after years of neglect from his family, doctors and educators. Through his book, A Child Called “it,” he recounts the different types of abuse he faced and the effects the abuse had on his ability to communicate with others and in his overall life. Throughout David’s abuse, his mother took the primary role of abuser by developing different reward and punishment techniques to discipline her child. As it is mentioned, her first disciplinary techniques and forms of abuse where to dehumanize and humiliate David by asking for others to ignore him, require the family to treat him as if he was not a member of the family, and wear the same clothes to school for months. David’s mother would also mentally mistreat him by using the “corner treatment” and then the “mirror treatment,” both techniques meant to make David believe that he was a “Bad Boy” that deserved to be punished. As well, his mother’s abuse often employed physical punishments such as beatings consisting of punches, kicking, and slapping. David was also stabbed once in the stomach and made to drink ammonia, Clorox and liquid soap. All of the abuse David suffered, resulted from years of child abuse neglect and sexism.

The first thing I learned is never take life for granted. You show in your book how a teenagers life is changed by one thing, cancer. I´ve heard how most of the time it can be life-threatening. When I read your book I saw the full effect cancer had on Steven´s school-life and family-life. The book also showed me you never know what someone is going through

It definitely was a tear jerker, but it also opened my eyes up to how bad child abuse actually can get. I knew it was bad, but never this bad. There were points where it was hard to continue reading due to that fact I was crying and couldn’t stop. I never know someone could treat a human this badly, especially not a mother treat her son this horrifically. Although it was very sad, it made me realize courage is something you need a lot of at points in your life, and David Pelzer’s courage to not give up and to keep fighting for life in this sick game his mother has created. This showed me that even in the darkest of dark times in your life if you just have a little faith and a lot of courage, anything is possible, and I believe that is the best message that could have been sent by how hard and long he fought. He continued for years to endlessly and relentlessly fight for his life. Determined to not let his mother “win” the game she created. I would absolutely recommend this book to someone. I feel as though I have benefited from reading and I feel as though someone else might too. That would be one more person knowing how brutal and disgusting child abuse can

When children endure severe physical abuse, children are robbed of their normal sense of self and their normal sense of home. A Child Called “It” is a non-fiction book based on the true story of one such child, Dave Pelzer, and his lifelong struggle both to survive and to reclaim his identity and try’s to gain a normal life back. The author who is to Dave Pelzer wrote this book on his child hood. He has overcome many things since that time period in his life. He is an author of the #1 worldwide best seller. Dave Pelzer is also recognized as one of the nation most effective and well respected communicators addressing corporate groups, conventions and human-service professionals. Dave’s tremendous accomplishments have reaped personal commendations from former Presidents Ronald Raegan, and George Bush. In 1993 Dave was honored as one of The Outstanding Young Persons of the World, he was also selected as a torchbearer for the 1996 Olympics Torch Relay. Dave has now dedicated his life helping others learn how to help themselves.

Through out this book I feel it is going to teach me how to change my inner judge. How to except myself and the things that I do. Society, parents and religion are not always right. You can make your own morals and your own values. I will have to continue on to the next chapter to find

One lesson that I’ve learned from reading this book is to always be thankful for what I have because it can be taken away from me just like that. In the book Inge had to leave everything behind, including her house, clothing, toys, and many other things. Another lesson that I learned from reading this book is to never give up. In the book Inge always kept pushing through to stay alive during the Holocaust. Even if it is really hard never give up because in the end there will be a reward.

One of the smallest, yet most important lessons, was how to empathize. The power of empathy and imagination opened up the world around me. How could it be that I found and continue to find myself a better person through reading someone else's words? I do not know, but it happened. I am thankful for Ms.Powell and the stories she would read after recess. Nothing has stuck with me more than that special activity. In the fifth grade books became more than just books, and it has been that way ever since. Word count:

I think that this book has taught me to focus on every little thing, every little habit of quirk someone has, because I may never see it again. I have become more observant of my surroundings and the people I am with. I live life like it is everyone else’s last

Apparently, breaking boards with your feet is harder than it sometimes looks. But, in order to get to the next round of Tae Kwon Do class, this is exactly what this little boy had to do. It may have taken him awhile, but his dedication finally paid off. I'm sure his foot is going to hurt in the morning, though!

A Child Called “It”- a truly touching and inspirational story that takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster. Anger, shock, fear, and heartbreak are just a few of the emotions felt while reading the story of a young boy who fought for his life each and every day. David, the young boy facing unimaginable circumstances, did many things out of the ordinary for a child of his age but necessary in order for survival.

When the psychologist was evaluating David, he asked him what his problem was. David simply said “I’m hearing a voice and its saying thud.” After the psychologist sat there for a while and tapped his pen, Rosenhan was finally led down a hallway to an exam room. He then said that he was fine and wanted to know when he will go home. The doctor’s just smiled at him and said “when you are well.” After the doctors took the vital signs of David, they sent him into a room where he would “take” his medication to make him sane. While he was in a room where all the patients gathered in, he saw a patient get severely punished for telling a nurse “I like you”. In today’s medicine, any diagnosis can be wrong because the doctor does not look at the huge picture of what is going on. Psychiatry needs to have more research developed. There has been a development since the beginning of the discovery of psychiatry. They started out with the shock treatment and now they have shrinks that people talk to try to get the voice out of their head. There still are insane asylums, but they are not like how they use to

Obsessions are thoughts recur and persist despite efforts to ignore or confront them. Many common obsessions founded by the National Institute of Mental Health are: fear

Without the great descriptions of the scenery and chronological events, this book would have been quite boring and hard to read. The author did a splendid job of clearly describing each event thoroughly enough to make it almost like I was in David 's shoes. My favorite part of the book was when David got off the

The Child Called It is a true story. It is about a kid named David who gets abused by his mom. The story takes place in San Francisco, California. David’s mom likes to torture him and not call him her son. David’s dad had no control over the mom because if he told anyone, she would kill david. David calls his mom “The Mother.” The mother likes to do new torture methods to david.

When I read this book it showed me what life would be like if we had no feeling. It showed me how to stay true to myself, and do what is right if anything is done wrong. It showed