Beginning: A June of 1751 in the quiet village of Essendean in Scotland. David shut the door of his

As a young child, David had a loving family, his Mommy, his father and his two brothers. By the time he was seven, he was being starved and abused by his mother. In his life, David had to face many challenges. One of which is having to play his mother’s “games” that left him half dead. He would also get punished for being a “bad boy” when he never did anything. Later, he had enough courage to tell someone, his 4th grade teachers at Thomas Edison Elementary School.

David's mother got worse and she began to think of new ways to torture David. David was one of a few brothers, but only he was targeted. The other brothers pretended he wasn't even there. There was only one person in the family that still loved David was his father. David’s father would fight for David and would protect him from the mother. But, he would always lose. Whenever David's father went to work, David would get beat. Dave became the scapegoat for his mother's mistakes. David became a slave of the house and did all the chores. If he did not finish his chores with an unreasonable time, he did not receive dinner. David was starved for three days at a time. Once, David got stabbed by his mother for not completing her dishes. Whenever David came back from school his mother forced him to throw up to see if he got any food at school. This happened every

Before David actually headed to his Indians, David talked about his spiritual life in his diary. He talked about enjoying spiritual peace and comfort, and sorrow of sin. He also was in agony over sin. Then on April 1, he arrived at his Indians, not the ones near the Delaware and

Since David’s mother’ death, he now lived with his loving grandmother, Margret Limpert. David seemed to ignore her and show disrespect to her. In the beginning of the book, his grandmother took him to an Easter egg hunt. He was not happy about going. When David was looking for easter eggs, he saw a girl that he thought was beautiful. He asked if she was dead, and she did not respond. He then starting talking about himself to the girl, and then he ran off. The girl that he mistook as being dead, was a thirteen year-old girl who likes to break all rules, and her name was Primrose Dufee.

In The David Story, the largest portion of the story, takes place in Jerusalem. David was a great warrior of the Hebrew era. He was famously known for killing the Philistine giant, Goliath. He

First, David’s mother gave him enough courage to keep hope his father would be all right after the Nazis arrested him. Because their own house was no longer safe from Nazi invasion, David’s family was staying with friends. However,

Being the archetypal youth, David performs justice to his role as an archetype. While living with his uncle, David kept getting the idea that his uncle was trying to take his inheritance away from him. David’s uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, starts to prove David’s suspicion, when he sends David to the side of the house. Due to the lightning, David discovers that there are hardly any steps and he could have fallen and died. Uncle Ebenezer brushes the idea off of David’s mind, but continues to try to kill David in order to obtain the inheritance. As a second attempt, Uncle Ebenezer takes David along to see Hoseason at the Queen’s Ferry. Hoseason, partnered up with Ebenezer, takes David on the ship to “look around”. As soon as David gets on the ship, he is knocked unconscious and taken away. David realizes his uncle’s truth when he is taken away, “Help! Help! Murder! -and my uncle turned round where he was sitting and showed me a face full of cruelty and terror” (Stevenson 36). Being the archetypal youth, David has already gone through external enemies such as Ebenezer and Hoseason. Ebenezer tried to kill David by tricking him into climbing a dangerous stairway. When that fails, Ebenezer gets his nephew kidnapped and tries to arrange for David’s death through a group of seamen. It is David’s first battle against his uncle as he finds out what his uncle really is and what his uncle wants. Throughout his journey, David meets Alan who becomes his best friend and together, they fight the men on the ship. David explains the outcome of the fight as,

Petra, David’s little sister starts communicating with a lady from a place called Sealand. The people from Sealand then come to save them. Near the end of the novel the Sealand people arrive and save them. When they finally arrive in Sealand David realizes that the dream he had was of Sealand.

At the age of 5 years old, not only did he began to take showers with his father, but when they went to the beach club, his mother bathed him in the shower in the presence of other naked women. By the age of 6 years old, David noticed the power men had over women, “when a male entered the women’s side of the bathhouse, all the women shrieked”. (Gale Biography). At the age of 7 and 8 years old, he experienced a series of head accidents. First, he was hit by a car and suffered head injuries. A few months later he ran into a wall and again suffered head injuries. Then he was hit in the head with a pipe and received a four inch gash in the forehead. Believing his natural mother died while giving birth to him was the source of intense guilt, and anger inside David. His size and appearance did not help matters. He was larger than most kids his age and not particularly attractive, which he was teased by his classmates. His parents were not social people, and David followed in that path, developing a reputation for being a loner. At the age of 14 years old David became very depressed after his adoptive mother Pearl, died from breast cancer. He viewed his mother’s death as a monster plot designed to destroy him. (Gale Biography). He began to fail in school and began an infatuation with petty larceny and pyromania. He sets fires,

David was also a farmer. He was a member of the Church of Brethren and once was an auditor of York Township. He was a father of 14 children and had a wife named Eleonora. Evelyn, their youngest great grandchild remembers going to their house and having to use oil lamps. Also, they rode horse and buggy to travel places. David owned another farm but be gave some of it away his land, to the new Fairview Church of the Brethren. Once he died, he got buried in the cemetery called Stumps Union that was on the property he gave away to the

What makes you into a mature adult? This is shown mostly in the novel, The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly through characterization, although the author uses various literary terms to show that his main character comes of age. David is a depressed flat character in the beginning who eventually has to grow up a lot faster than other kids his age and become a person that sticks up for himself and a dynamic mature character as the book progresses.     In the beginning of the novel David is characterized as depressed child. For example, “David would always remember the day his mother died” (Connolly 4).

“David” begins with a few hikers, Bobbie and David. They live more carefree in the mountains and it is shown as they are camping like it is a vacation. Hiking, climbing, outdoor cooking, and sightseeing the mountains are all examples of their carefree attitude. The protagonist, Bobbie falls into some shrubs and moss on one of their trips which can foreshadow his fall and this trait seems to be constant in “David” where their carefree attitude leads them to their demise if they're not careful which is shown when David is nearly killed because of Bobbie’s carefree attitude in where he didn’t test his foot hold. When they are climbing they see a dead goat which foreshadows David’s death in where they could fall.

According to the New Living Translation (1996) King David lived halfway between the lives of Abraham and Jesus, in addition to becoming one of the most important leaders for Israel and "a man after God's own heart" ( 1 Samuel 13:14). David's place of birth was Bethlehem, City of David Jerusalem where he grew up as a shepherd, but he is better known for his youthful triumph over Goliath, as well as being a poet, musician, soldier, and a king (Holy Bible, NLT, 1996). King David died at the age of seventy after ruling for forty years.

Both leave their places at home, or comfort of family and end up alone and at a new defining point in their lives. The man begins by escaping from his normal life to Egypt. With the looming threat of risk, he takes on the adventure of crossing the desert expecting to see the brilliance of pyramids. However, when he concludes his trip, he only to discover the empty tombs of pharaohs. The man comes to realize the important part of life is not the end goal, but all the lessons come from the journey. Like the man, David starts with the desire to gain respect from his father. By the end of his journey he discovers loneliness with death if the elephant and the uselessness of the hunt. These lessons that David learns also come from his adventure. Although both protagonists show growth through adventure and death, their ages and own perspectives of the outcomes from their experiences

”We first encounter David as a lad in his father’s home at Bethlehem, where Samuel anointed him king over Israel (I Sam. 16 1 -13).2 A little later on he is called in to relieve Saul’s insanity by playing the lyre and is appointed Saul’s armour-bearer (I Sam. 16 14-23).3 His next appearance is in Saul’s camp when Israel is fighting the Philistines.”