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The Child Called ‘It’
To inspire is to fill with animating, quickening, or exalting influence. To hope is to feel that what is wanted can be had. To hear inspiring stories of others can fill us with the hope to brighten the darkest days. This is what a book will do for me, especially a non-fiction book. The trilogy by Dave Pelzer: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave, was enough to change my life forever.
In the first novel, A Child Called It, I cried, I screamed, and I hurt. This little boy, David, was only five years old when his mother started to secretly abuse him. He was hit, tortured, starved, lived in the garage, and eventually lost his own name to his family. His mother had so much power over the rest of her kids, and alcoholic father who just wanted to get away, that David soon became known as “It.” I can only imagine the hurt that he went through as a kid. One example from this book stuck with me long after I had read it. “I knew mother had something hideous on her mind. As soon as the left, she brought out one of Russell’s soiled diapers. She smeared the diaper on my face. I tried to sit perfectly still. I didn’t look up. I couldn’t see Mother standing over me, but I could hear her heavy breathing” (Pelzer, 55). How on earth could a mother do that to any of her own children?
He got out, he was eleven but he got out. Then into foster care he went. While in foster care he faced many new struggles of trying to fit in and winding the love of a family again. My brother and sister went through foster care and that’s when the thought first came to my mind about helping these kids because they go through so much. Reading these books just made me want to do something for foster kids. It didn’t necessarily make me want to be a social worker, but I want to help make these kid’s lives better.
Nothing ever happened to that mother. She went to court when he was put into a home, but nothing ever happened to her. They didn’t take her other children and because of that, she moved on to abusing one that was left with her. This book made me realize I want to change that. Children should not have to go through anything hurtful at all. I simply don’t understand how anyone could do that to children.
In his final novel, he is now grown and out of foster care and is now trying to struggle with jobs and life. He got married and has a child. This scared him more than anything in the world. As an adult he found out that one possible reason that he was abused was because his mother was also abused as a child, so he thinks that it runs in the family. He doesn’t want to be like that. His last book is maybe the most inspiring of them all. He proves that no matter what, you can get through anything and let go and forgive even when it doesn’t seem like you should. He forgave his mother on her death bed. Of course she didn’t care, but he did it so he could finally let go and live his life for his son.
Everyone should read David Pelzer’s books. They are the true meaning of inspiration and hope. Any book for that matter can change your life. Just pick it up and start reading.