The book “The Child Called It” by author David Pelzer, is a story with unsatisfied events and based on a true story. The story is about child abuse that occurred in a boy’s life and told in a story of a book that let out his emotions and feelings. This child abuse occurred in the history of California were people started to realize more of the tragedy of child abuse accruing in the world we live in. The main character is a little boy named David who is being brutally child abused by his own mother. David had two older brothers but they were not abused by his mother like he was.  In fact, they were not hurt at all. The title says a “child called it,” “it” came from a name his mother would call the kid throughout the story. David’s mom was an alcoholic who hurt him daily and left him to starve and the only chance he gets to eat is when his brothers leave left overs. David’s scared to say anything because he knows if his words were spoken he would get beaten, so he keeps his thoughts in his head. David has to play in the games of his mother but in this game he is the toy that nobody wants to play but everyone wants to break and throw around. Not everyone though there is a special owner of this “toy” which is known as his mother. He is a lonely child who lives in the basement of his house with ripped up dirty clothes.

            David’s just a little boy who wants to eat. So in order for him to get food he steals from others. David’s mom knows his tricks and so in order for her to know if he stole or not she obligates his to throw up. The trick his mom does is if he vomits then she knows he has eaten something he stole from school and if he doesn’t he’s freed but only for a few minutes. David mom will always find a way to hurt him. The worst part is that he has to live with this without saying anything to anyone only himself which isn’t enough. He has to suffer with less food everyday but beatings every second. If that’s not enough for his mother when he steals and his mother finds out her punishment toward him is no food at all for the day.

            In school it’s not anything different it’s like his mother destroys his life with anything. His classmates make fun of him because of his ripped up clothes. They don’t like sitting next to him because he smells bad because he wears the same clothes every day. It is not David’s fault he has to wear it all the time his mom tells him to. Not making it a choice for him but a monitory thing. David still keeps silence in school not telling anyone his “secret” but eventually teachers would send him to the nurse because of the bruises left on his arm. He remembers how his mother would say to not tell anyone she had done this or else he would get punished. Of course David knew what kind of punishment he would get so instead he would tell the nurse he had fell. The nurse attempts to call David’s mother but David acts fast enough to stop her. He is too frighten to tell anyone about his hopeless nights in his house it felt more like a jail then a home. David just wanted to let out how lonely he felt in his house like if he wasn’t part of that family or belong anywhere in general.

 David had his father though, he loved him a lot. Well he claimed to and said he did. He did think of him as an actual human being not as a “It” like his mother had seen him. David’s dad saw him with other eyes. You could say he looked at him with eyes of a father. David’s dad was no fool he saw his son suffering but thought that since he came home late he could not do anything. Don’t take him as a bad guy he did bring food down for David at night when he was punished or when he had the time he would also try and make him part of the family but nothing lasted when he was gone. David also didn’t take his dad for granted he felt better when his dad was by his side. The “it” felt like someone for once. Then one day that feeling went away he never came down to see him anymore not on single second even if he waited at last he gave up. He had notice that his angle had gone to another person and left him alone, Again.

 At the end his mom decides to let him go because she gets tired of him. David wants to go but isn’t sure to because his thoughts tell him he won’t live alone. David feels free but doesn’t know where to go or what to do once he’s gone out. This book is my favorite book and I surly mean it because me as a reader from only this tittle. It interested me and grabbed my attention. Also because I never thought this would actually be accruing in the real world. In the tittle it says base on a true story and when I started reading the book it was from David’s perspective. This made the book more intriguing because he added his thoughts and feeling as if we the reader put our shoes in his we would see what it feels to not be loved. This book made me realize that we live in a world with monsters but not literary monsters but us who make us care less about people we put into this would or have around us.