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This was for my education class; we were given the assignment to read the book "A Child Called 'It'" by David Pelzer and either write a 2 page essay with one of the prompts or do something creative, such as a poster or poem. I chose another option, which was to draw an alternate cover for the book.If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it. This was my second time reading it, it's a good introspection into the human heart and soul, from the perspective of a young boy who undergoes severe abuse.
This was created in probably 3 hours using photoshop. It's kind of sloppy, but I pretty much had a day to do it (other things kept taking precedence... ah well). It got the point across.
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I remember I first read this book
Back when I was only nine
It traumatized me temporarily
I lost the book awhile ago
But to this day some of the events
Haunt my thoughts and dreams
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I like this a lot. I can relate to some of it. I have the first book and the second book. I'd like to read the third some time and the others you guys have mentioned.I've also reread them. It makes me so sad and angry how someone could do that, how she went to this nice, caring, mother to a heartless monster.
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Yes, a very thought-provoking and disturbing series. It's baffling what a history of abuse can do to a person. Thanks for the comment!
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Our teacher made us read it. Most of the kids cried and the rest had vomited (or dry heaved) at least once.
It is sickening that the human mind could do such things to a child. I wish his mother died from more than
just a heart attack. T-T
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It's definitely beyond the pale. I like to think that these people have to face the enormity of their actions someday. For them, nothing can be worse than looking into a mirror.
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Ooh, and as well, when the BABY BROTHER said 'Dave's going to die, the Boy's going to die' it totally creeped me out.
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Well, Russel was brain-freaking-washed. It wasn't his fault, David recalls.
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Mm. But it was still creepy.
Oh, Merlin's beard, that book is so long overdueβ¦
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I know :/ very messed up.
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That mother's mind was demented. But what she did was unforgivable.
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This book makes me cry at the end⦠and hate his parents. (mostly his mother)
Excellent alternate cover. I like this one better than the real cover.
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Thank you! This was a really rushed piece, since it wasn't for anything artistic... but in a way, I like it like that.
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It's way better than I could do taking my time!
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I found it, not knowing what to expect....the level of abuse he underwent is horrifying, for lack of a better word.
His further memiors are really interesting, too. It messed him up for a long, long time.
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I haven't read past this book. I hear his brother wrote something about it, too? Not sure. I'm not surprised it messed him up for a while-- and that whole family as well, I'm sure. What's really sad to me is how little the father did. He just ran away and did nothing for his kids.
Thanks for looking!
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It made me cry when the father left. Dave's last hope- gone. My library only has this book- not the other two. And imagine how horrible it was- he still remembers it! That mother of his was, to me, an idiot. Who starves, stabs and makes their child put his hand over a lit stove?! He was right to call her the B word.
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She had lots of problems, that's for sure
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Yes, I'm glad my mum isn't like that to us.
I need to return that book to my school library.
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Well, it's part of a series of memoirs. The next book is about him being in foster care(and his mother still antagonizing him and vowing to have him back), and I think the third book is about him confronting his father (he's dying of cancer) and trying to figure out what made his mother the way she was (he didn't find out, but he figures that she was abused too)
Yes, his brother wrote a book because when David left, his mother moved on to another child. It's confirmed most of what David said happened.
The youngest brother and the grandmother have made public statements saying he made it up, but the Principal that got him away from the mother wrote back saying it was true, so they're lying to themselves or ashamed of it or...something, I don't know.
No problem!
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Craaazy. It's really a shame that there were people that knew him that are trying to deny it and call him a liar. Why would anyone lie about something like that... and so completely. So ridiculous.
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Same. It's so hard to read, knowing it all actually happened to someone-- much less a child.
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and the hrdest thing to believe is that it's all true, every single word. none of it was ficion, it all really happened to him. i dont know how many times i cried reading tht damn book. i had to put it down several times cui cudnt see thru my tears.
....yknow, i wish david himself could read all these comments. im sure hed be tuched that so many ppl care about him when so long ago it seemed nobody did...
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I had the same reaction upon reading it, the first time. The second time, when I was older, and more world-wise, it just filled me with abject terror. How could someone do this to their child? How? Those are the questions that keep us up at night.
I'm sure he's received thousands of letters of support over the years. The fact that he now has a family of his own and has broken the chain of abuse is an achievement. He's clearly a strong person. I don't know if I could have survived and, indeed, prospered, within all of that.
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It really was a great book. I think you did a good job with the alternative cover
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Thank you! I feel like it would have been better if I'd had more time for the assignment.
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Eh dont worry about it everybody waits till last minute to do stuff (or atleast I do) I think it turned out really well
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Haha, I did through most of my schooling career XD until I couldn't get away with it anymore. Anyway, thank you again!
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*sniff* sorry its the book it's inspiring and good and i love the art *sniff* dammit why did David have to suffer like that why could it of been me?
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it made me cry for 3 hours
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well the Mom's dead,David's happy what can be better?
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your welcome yeah it is its so sad the mom must be sick or some thing to do that
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Definitely. I think perhaps she was abused when she was younger, is the reason why she did all of those horrible things.
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probably but y would she make only david suffer and not the other spoiled kids
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It's common to single out a single child as a scapegoat...when David left, she moved on to another child, and he wrote a book, too.
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