What did the Child Call?

Author's Note: People don't understand how to truly cherish every living second of life on the Earth. I can’t say that I don’t, well I can now, now that I’ve read A Child Called “It”.  I will be responding to that story in my essay.

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them,” stated by Oscar Wilde.  I thought this quote related very well to the book because; many children forgive, but for children like Dave Pelzer, his “Ten Outstanding Young Americans” and “Outstanding Young Persons of the World” honor merit say there’s no logic to kiss and make up. He’s not the only person that isn’t able to laugh off what happened to him.  For the one out of five people in the world who are abused, according to “A Child Called It”, which is an estimation of 3 million children, can agree to this statement. With that said, this book pleased me because of it's bits and pieces of laughs and smiles it gave me, how it can compare to the other books and the real world.

I giggled for the first time when he calls his mom “a name”; the second time that I smiled was when he told the reader’s he was going to survive her games.  A Child Called “It” isn’t necessarily pleasing as in satisfying and peaceful, but it’s good in a way to keep me turning pages.  My most cherished, incomparable part of the book is the beginning, which is usually not the case, but in the beginning they give you limited knowledge of the future. Dave Pelzer is his own super hero.  Heroes are often in a ginormous majority of the books I’ve read since I can have a ball reading a non-fictional story with a bitter side, but heroes take away that factor from the equation. On that note, comparing A Child Called “It” to Perfect can take place because they’re both all about healing.  Perfect isn’t like A Child Called “It” in an additional way in the behalf of, the most marvelous morsel in A Child Called “It” is up in front and Perfect’s number one segment is the end.  

Although this book made me laugh a few times, it still was heartbreaking because of the fact that it truly happened. In the real world people take as gospel that their parents are ruining their lives because, they won’t let them get a phone, but they don’t know Dave Pelzer’s definition of hard. Dave Pelzer’s mind is set to the definition of hard as: not being fed at all in 7 days. Hard is referred to in our heads as having something we don’t like on our plates.  Opinions are opinions; I can’t really relate to this book.  We can’t dismiss the fact that some parents are being abused by their children, it’s not always the children being abused.  Guess I could relate to that since my friend always yells in her mom’s ears, and licks her face, and hits her until I say “You know what that’s not cool,”; I think I could be her savior, such as Dave’s dad.  Although in the book, his dad has to work and can’t always save his butt; likewise with me, I can’t sleepover every night.    

The bits and pieces of laughs and smiles it gave me, and how it compared to the real world and other books is why A Child Called "It" pleased me.  Too bad he wasn’t able to cram this in the back of his mind, the only part not contained with his mother’s rules. This point can relate to the quote “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it,” which was stated by Helen Keller. Why I chose that quote is because in A Child Called “It”, Dave Pelzer was full of suffer in the beginning, but he overcame it in the end. That’s why this tragedy is such a good read.