David Short Story

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

Although both the previous events did put David into an adverse position, the following experience changed David’s outlook on life for the better. Finally there was someone to tell David the true meaning of mankind, Uncle Axel. Uncle Axel tells him to be proud of his telepathic abilities, instead of praying to be what everyone else thinks is the true image. Uncle Axel also changes David's outlook on the true image of man, he explains to him how it's not one's physical features that define him, but what's in his mind.

boy which in fact is Karl Muller we are told that the boy is in café

is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of

David spends the first two chapters eavesdropping into the conversations of his mother and father. This way of finding information in itself is very juvenile but is the only way. Because of the eavesdropping, the information David hears is interfered by his childish ways for example “part of me said to leave, get away, run now before it’s too late before you hear something you can’t unhear.” This quote displays David’s naïve thinking. The naivety of David is also shown though his feeling towards his Uncle Frank, he sees Frank as the charming, town doctor and loving uncle. In David’s eyes, Frank can do no wrong, and when he does, he along with his father does not believe the allegations, “why are you telling me this” “are you telling me this because I’m Frank’s brother? Because I’m your husband? Because I’m Maries employer? He paused “or because I’m the

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,

To continue, David was afraid and insecure when he realized he was a deviant, but he found love and support in a single person, Uncle Axel. Before David came to understand just how different he was, Uncle Axel quickly warned him to keep his ability secret. While most other people of his society would have reported

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, the youngest was given away at the age of two. When his new family, the McDaniels took a look at him for the first time, he had a series amount of bed bug bites all over his body. Although he was raised in a very religious enviroment he still would visit his siblings ruth and milton and untie them from the barn everytime he would go back to his home. At the age of sixteen he ran away from his home and joined the military where he was able to move away from transforming into a rebellious teen. Many years after the return of David, he finally had the chance to reunite with his biological mother where he stated that when his mother saw him for a second time she did not show any sign of pitty nor regret she simply just stated “ you look just like your father.”

Walking into the lounge room, David sat down on the couch, and refused Bill’s offer of refreshments. Sitting down next to him, Bill asked him, ‘Well, what is it then, David?’

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).

his father and dead mother. David's father has an idealized vision of his son as

This is when Giovanni makes his appearance. He is handsome and Italian and even though David refuses to admit it, he is very attracted to this young, dark man. After a while he ends up in his bedroom where he stays for several weeks. That he is having a homosexual affair is tearing on David, and he despises Giovanni as well as he loves him. In the book, David is saying to him self: ‘The beast which Giovanni awakened in me would never go to sleep again; but one day I would not be with Giovanni anymore'. When he finds joy in Giovanni's room, it quickly becomes clear that it cannot last, and that love does not always conquer all, and that it actually stands no chance against fear and self-delusion. He is fighting a constant battle against something he can't remove or ignore.

The marble sculpture conveys an image of a man’s body which is almost like superman. In this way, his David suggests the ideal appearance of what a man should look like. After centuries of Church dominating in people’s lives, the Renaissance marked a return to the people’s values of their world. Interestingly, statue of David which was modeled by Michelangelo is the most famous statue in the whole world and perhaps an important tourist attraction site in Italy. Michelangelo was born on 6th march, 1475 in Caprese village in Italy. He also worked on the David's statue between 1501 and 1504 which stands at the height of 4.34m/14 ft 3. The statue is placed outside Palazzo Vecchio. It is currently viewed as a symbol of new republic which replaced Medici

Throughout the novel, David, the protagonist is abused and tortured several times by his very own father, Joseph Strorm and his recently discovered Uncle, Gordon. David’s father is a strict believer in his religion and is unyielding on the subject of mutations and blasphemy’s. If anyone neglects to follow his beliefs and rules, he has serious consequences for them, like with David, once Joseph found out that David knows a blasphemy, he immediately subjected to abusing him for answers. David’s father continues to beat him until he receives the information he demands. David has been abused more than once by his father and this is evident when David says, “I knew well enough what that meant, but I knew well too, that with my father in his present mood, it would happened whether I told or not. I set my jaw,