Blog #2

For my American Author i did Dave Pelzer. I Started off by rereading the Child called it. I read the whole book in 2 days. The book is about dave as a little boy and how his perfect family started to fall apart. His once beautiful, caring, intellegent mother became, scary, alcoholic, and an abusive mother. HIs father who was once his hero, became a person that he bearly realized. His mother would beat him, and play wierd games with him. some examples of games are: washing the dishes,cleaning the house, etc, but the bad part was that there was a time limit. If he did not finish within the time limit she would starve him for days or up to a week, make him drink amonia, along with other horrible things. I have not really started to think about ideas for my paper.
I really like the way Dave writes his book. He writes from his perspective, he tells us exactly how he felt at that time. He puts alot of details into his writting. He makes you feel like your right next to him. My favorite passage from the Child Called it is when his mother makes him drink amonia infront of his father, because he has been a "Bad Boy". Once Dave drinks the amonia he falls to the floor and tears come out from his eyes as he lies on he floor bearly being able to breath.