Movie Analysis: Dave

Although the reading level of A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer wasn’t difficult, processing the horror of the events that inspired the story was. People who experience traumatic situations can often recall the events with sharp clarity, which is exactly what Pelzer did. Riddled with grim details, the text takes readers on a journey through Dave Pelzer’s troubled early years. Through his meticulously documented experiences, readers get a perfect view into the torture that shaped his childhood. Although painful, the descriptions give students the opportunity to make observations and apply different approaches about development to Pelzer’s harrowing tale.

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

In 1995, David Pelzer wrote a book describing his childhood, a book that is highly recommend as a must read. The book starts off with a happy home and quickly turns into his very own nightmare. Pelzer is a survivor of child abuse. This story is so nauseating that while reading it you find found yourself praying that his parents would rot in hell for all eternity.

     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 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.

     Emotionally, she never referred to David as her son. She always knew Dave as ‘the boy’ or ‘It’. As his father would try to intervene to help him out, he would be caught by the madness of his wife in calling him, ‘the boy’ and ‘It’. As much as his father tried to comfort Dave, he did not have the will to stand up against his wife.

Dave courageously cleans the wound himself and because of it saves himself. Chapter 6 is titled While Father is Away. The dad is Dave’s safe haven; his is his only sense of comfort in the house. That quickly changes when the dad starts to spend less and less time together. Dave is incredibly sad when his dad becomes less and less around. The mom’s torture strategies become more and more harsh. She starves Dave for 10 days straight, she suffocates Dave by putting a bucket of ammonia and Clorox and locking him in the room, forces him to lay in cold baths for hours and then has him put on his clothes without drying himself and has him sit outside in the cold. Until one Sunday the mom tells Dave that she is sorry and wants to start fresh. That night he is treated like part of the family and for once is treated human. The next day the social worker arrives and Dave realizes why she started to be nice to him. He is crushed when he realizes this, soon after the social worker leaves things return back to normal. Chapter 7 is titled The Lord’s Prayer. Dave has begun to lose all hope in everything. He hates everyone including himself and begins to care less and less. He becomes very angry and this is noticed at

“I’m free?” the optimistic contemplations inside young David’s mind as he rides away in the security of the police car. Regardless of how many times his mother “Played the game,” with him, he refused to give her the satisfaction of victory. Along with approximately one in every five children, Davis underwent the abuse, negligence, and shuffling in the foster system. As the protagonist of the autobiography “A Child Called “It” David Pelzer writes about surviving a difficult childhood, where hones skills that ultimately lead him to a bright future.

In A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius part IV, readers like myself, get a look inside the battle of being Dave. We have seen him as caregiver, a brother, a boyfriend of sorts, and now a man who was chosen to be a father to his younger brother. Most parents battle with the idea of how to parent and typically have time to prepare on the type and style of parenting they would choose, Dave didn’t have the luxury of preparing for this moment. None of his friends, this far, are parents and so, he has no one to discuss the rights and wrongs, no absolute mentor in the world of parenting, one of the hardest and sometimes unrewarding roles a person can have.

The gas chambers had a really bad smell and the gas was still on the wall of the chambers. The living environments were horrible the beds were stacked up on top of each other there was no pillow or blanket and were lucky if they got a mattress. They were barely ever fed there a lot of the people died from starvation. There was also not a lot of water for them to drink. The food that they got usually was bread or a really bad stew and it was a really little if you got

I hate you and I wish you were dead!” By calling him “an it” as if he is sub-human making it easier to inflict inhuman punishment such as forcing him to drink ammonia, stabbing him in the stomach, burning his arm on a gas stove, and forcing him to eat his own vomit. These are things a mother could never imagine doing to her child, which why it is evident that his mother no longer saw him as her son, and only something she could torcher and blame for the things that she herself had done wrong in her life. Because she no longer called him by his name she is able to treat him dreadfully and not be unsettled by her conscience. She took away her sons childhood because she believed that he was not worthy of living a normal human life, she took humanity away from him and made him feel like he was the evil and deserve this

A Child Called “It” chronicles Dave's life as a child, and is told from that viewpoint. From his earliest recollections of a relatively happy life with "the Mommy" to his life and death struggle with "The Mother", this book details the horror of Dave’s dehumanizing existence. Going far beyond “typical” physical, emotional and psychological abuses, Dave’s story tells of intentional starvation, forced coprophagia, poisoning and much more. This volume covers his life from his earliest memories at age 4 until his rescue at age 12.

In the movie Dave by Ivan Reitman, released May 7, 1993. It introduces a plot by Bob Alexander President Chief of staff commits conspiracy by abducting a double for the president to replace the real president while he is having a stroke. Alexander brings a competent small Business owner named David Kovic to replace the President H.E. Bill Mitchell, while looking for a way to indict Vice President, making him the next successor of power.

Doug Block is an independent filmmaker in New York City. He lives with his wife Marjorie A. Silver and has a daughter Lucy Block and stepson Joshua Silver. Doug Block is the son of Mike and Mina Block and grew up in Port Washington along with his two other sisters Ellen and Karen Block. Doug never attended film school instead he went to Cornell College and attended many of their “great exhibitions on film”; during his four years he attended these events constantly. He took jobs on movie sets and was able to lie to a producer saying he knew how to shoot. He was able to fake his way through because Block believes it was due to all thes movies he had seen and his jobs on set. Then in 1991, he directed his first documentary The Heck with Hollywood it’s about the marketing and distribution of an independent film. He has released four documentary featured films and one documentary short The Children Next Door. Apart form directing he has also produced several films and keeping his website up to date d-word.com, where documentaries go to discuss about their films or for advice.

Dave was placed in a foster home. His foster parents were Mr. and Mrs. Turnbough. They were very supportive in what Dave wanted to do with his life. He was often teased by his peers and they made him feel like he would never measure up or amount to anything. Dave had dreams and aspirations. He did not just give in to what society labeled him