David In Anne Holm's I Am David

This has led to David doing very little for himself as he knows it will be done for him. “Interpretive theories argue that the most important influence on individuals’ behaviour is the behaviour of others towards them” Marsh et al (2009) P.72. By being in an environment where David isn’t required to do anything he has learned not to bother and everything will still be done for him.

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

David was always a type of person inclined to be melancholy. He was always a religious person. He made sure that he did everything right, because he was afraid of death. He performed all the duties of religion without a true conversion.2

Everyday, an individual changes in their perspective and personality in one way or another, and it impacts their character. John Wyndham, the author of The Chrysalids, demonstrates that every individual experiences something that changes them in such a way that it prevents them from being able to go back to the person they once were. A prominent character that displays such a change would be David, who is the protagonist of the novel and goes through significant adversities that carve out his character. David changes in the story because of his mutation and his own thoughts, which develop because of the challenges they bring upon him. Not only do these factors bring change upon him but his identity also transfigures throughout the

Throughout the book “I am David” significant events occurred which subsequently led to David and his search for freedom and refuge. There was three main events that lead to this; David’s escape from the concentration camp, temporary stay at an Italian family’s home, and being taken captive by a Swiss farmer. David had been captive at a concentration camp for twelve years, without knowing his family, background or what real life was outside its walls. A camp commandant, referred to as “the man” helps David with fleeing the camp and making his first steps to freedom, why he does this is not revealed till later in the

David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and much of what is happening because his parents do not realise that he has

“We have to hope,” she [David’s mother] whispered, “that’s all that’s left” (Faber, 28). David’s mother portrayed courage to him during that specific ordeal. Eventually, David was himself captured, and ended up in a concentration camp.

only way to freedom.David told his dad that London was born into slavery and he thought she was taken away her right to be free.David dad felt bad for London so he

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,

Sophie allows for doubt to pierce its way into David’s life for the first time. At the start of the novel, when David first meets Sophie, he gets an insight into a deviant’s life. She has proven to be the first blow to efficiently impact David’s thoughts and make him question the authenticity of his society’s belief system. “It is hind-sight that enables me to fix that as the day when my first small doubts started to germinate.”

David through evaluation proceeded with numerous times of tribulation and battling as Saul chased and oppressed him, till in distress he fled to the Philistines for asylum. God saved him

The enemy laughed at David, and despised him, cursing him, not knowing, how dangerous this young boy would is!

David was a man after God’s own heart, and yet for years David was on the run from King Saul who wanted to kill him. And then later, his own son, Asolam wanted to kill him.

I Am David About I am David is a novel written by ‘Anne Holm’. The genre of this novel is historical drama and a children's literature novel. This novel was published under North to Freedom in 1963. The era of this novel is is ranging from 1945 to War World II and The Cold War. The narrative point of view is written from third-person.

This is where it is finally explained to the reader of what actually happened that day on April 23rd. David finally reveals what could not be explained word for word to just anyone, and what he did not want to say was finally said. He goes throughout the book questioning rather what he saw was true or just a figment of his imagination, but he knew it to be true deep down. He knew that what he saw could not be explained in just simple words to anyone since they would believe that he may be crazy. This was being said by David to his ex-wife in hopes that she would believe him, since he finds that they once use to be close, and that out of anyone she would. He needed a sense of closure, someone to tell him that what he saw was real, that validation. So, he thought that it would come from his ex-wife but, it didn’t and he was soon disappointed.