The+It+Factor

==A Child Called 'It' Review:  == 

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This novel interacts with the reader in a very emotionally explicit manner. It really bonds the reader with the main character, David. You can almost feel yourself in his shoes. The way he keeps his courage and hope is extraordinary. In the beginning the novel talks about how the family is like the "Brady Bunch" of the 1960's. They got along very well. David and his brothers have the best parents anyone can ever ask for. But then all of a sudden their mother starts not caring about what she looks like and yelling at them all the time. They knew what mood she was in based on how she looked when she came out in the kitchen in the morning. If she had make up on, a dress, and her hair all done, she would come out with a smile and they knew she was in a good mood. But when she came out with no make up and no smile, they knew they were in for the worst. At first she yelled at all of them and they were all scared of her. She sent them all on hunts to find things she would make up that she lost. Soon though, she started only making David find these unreal things and only punished him. The hunts sometimes went on for days, weeks. Soon she decided that the "corner treatment" was no longer affective. She then promoted David to the "mirror treatment." This included her smashing his face into the glass and making him sit there all day with his face smeared against the mirror. His brothers didnt do anything. Whenever they came into the room, they just looked at him, got what they came in for, and left with a sorry look on their faces. David didnt blame them, he knew they only just didnt want to get punished along with him. They were scared of their mother too and what she might do to them. Then David's father started working more and not coming home on his days off. His mom started giving him cruel and unusual punishments, She made him drink ammonia, she gave him the "gas chamber" treatment where she locked him in the bathroom with a bucket of clorox, she gave him cold baths then made him sit outside in the shade, gave him impossible time limits to do chores and wash dishes, and she didnt let him eat. He was completely used to going without food for 3 days, but one time she didnt let him eat for 10 days. He even dreamed about food while he slept. His mother even stabbed him and didnt take him to the hospital and still made him do chores but gave him 10 extra minutes. But that soon ended when she caught his father helping him wash and dry. The school nurse noticed David's markings and finally got him to tell her what was going on. It took a long time and David went through Hell, but finally she got a police officer to come to the school and talk to David. He said he was calling his mom and David started to cry. But the officer simply told her he was taking David far away from her and that he was in the custody of the department. He then drove him far away from the town where his mother lived and told him he was finally free. "I'm Free?" David then asked.======


 * Link to David Pelzer's Biography-** [|**http://www.bizography.org/biographies/dave-pelzer.html**][[image:achildcalledit.jpg width="158" height="250" align="right" caption="cover of book" link="@http://annabellasepiphanies.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/achildcalledit.jpg"]]


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