A Child Called "It"
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This book is the first part of the triology about Dave. A Child Called “It” takes place when Dave is between 4 and 12 years old.
Since Dave was four years old, his has been brutally beaten and starved by his mother. She was an alcoholic and emotionally unstable person. But you never find out why she so suddently became the monster she became. Dave didn’t write her name out, and he calls her “She” or “Mother” in the hole book. The reason is because the story is a true telling and the writer is Dave himslef.
When Dave was a little child, he lived happy in his family with many brothers. They went to family vacations, and his mother read storys for him and his brothers. Dave was the oldest brother of them. When Dave was four years old, his mother had stopped working to be home with the children. She started to beat and starve Dave. Dave couldn’t sleep inside the house anymore, because he wasn’t a member of the family. He was a slave, an “it”.
he loved to try new punishment on Dave. He couldn’t eat if he wasn’t finished with the dish in unpossible times She hade set up. One time She pulled him so hard that She pulled his arm out of joint . That night Dave got to sleep inside the house, in the top bunk bed as well. She woke him up at the night and took him to the hospital. “say that you felt out of the bed” she said to him. And Dave realized he was fooled. Fooled for the first time, but not the last.
When Dave had to go to school, he was so happy. It was the best thing that could happen. The other children picked on him, but it was nothing compared to the pain Dave was suffering at home. She stopped doing lunch-packets to Dave when she found out that Dave enjoyed school, and she did everything to make life a hell for Dave. The school nurse was the first to notice that Dave had really serious problems at home....
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