I am reading A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer , and I have finished the book. The book is about a kid who used to have the perfect family, but things took a turn for the worse. His mom grew cold and she turned her son into the family slave. She had beaten him, starved him, forced him to wear the same clothes every day, and that’s just the tip of the ice berg. In this journal I will be evaluating.

I evaluate that Dave’s mother has changed throughout the book. In the beginning of the book Dave describes his mom as a caring mother and wife. In the beginning Dave said she was known for being a happy nurturing mother. In the book she would always try to make her family happy. She would plan picnics and spend all day making supper. During the holidays she would decorate the …show more content…
She became a mean and angry person. She started to yell at Dave and abuse him. The longer he was there the angrier she would get. She started off but just hitting Dave then she became worse. She would force Dave’s had onto a burning stove, and then force him to lie on the stove. She would beat Dave till he couldn’t crawl away, even if his life depended on it. When Dave found some raw hot dogs to eat his mom made him puke it up. Then the dad said that if she would feed him then he wouldn’t eat other food. Then the mom said that if he wanted to eat something he could eat his puke, then she forced him to eat his own puke. In one part of the book she apologized to him and admitted that she was being a terrible mother and told him that she was going to be a better mother. She lied to him cause later child services came to visit the home and he told them that everything was fine. When that was over she went back to abusing him. She also would get in terrible fights with her husband, which she never used to do in the beginning of the book. There was one time in the book where she shoved his face in a dirty diaper. She mixed some chemicals together and it would