1. The Lost Boy
The book that I have chosen to read is "A Child Called It." In my opinion this is a very good book. Most books do not catch my attention and I rarely ever finish them. This book was different to me. This one caught my attention as opposed to other books. This book I found very interesting. I would recommend that everyone should read this book. This gives people a different perspective on "life" as they may know it. Most people would not have thought that things like this were happening. But the truth is most people don't want to believe that these things are true. I feel that this book would open the eyes of many people to the seriousness of this issue at hand. This issue is a problem because it will be a continuous problem unless somebody or something does something about it. Child Abuse is a problem that usually comes from their family background. If someone was abused as a child they don't know that it is wrong to do. And they will do the same things to there children and so on. They follow in there parents footsteps. Most kids that suffer from abuse have been convinced that they are a "bad kid" and don't think anything else of it. Like in this book the boy though that from his actions he was being punished. He would just have to work a little faster next time to get a less "harsh" consequence. These kinds of thoughts make a child believe this. They also have a lot of anger inside of them that will so be let out sideways on someone that they might not want to later on in life. Something may trigger an event that happened to them in the past and they might handle it in a way that comes more natural to them. Most people that have been convicted of these sorts of crimes have been treated in a way that is not helpful. Just sending a person to prison is not the answer. There are many programs to help people with these kinds of problems but most infrequently get the kind of help that they really need.
Bat Boy: The Musical The play Bat Boy: The Musical is the product of an historic alliance between the Weekly World News and three authors from Los Angeles. ... The protagonist of the production is the Bat Boy. ... The music in Bat Boy was extremely entertaining. ... This play also called attention to the mechanics of the theatre. ... This production of Bat Boy was wonderful. ...
Native Son and Black Boy are two classic examples of Wright's works that are profoundly influenced by the era in which he lived. ... Black Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man controlled by an absolute certainty of his own virtues. ... The very fact that Black Boy is an autobiography of Wright's life is in itself exemplifying how his life was reflected in his works. ... Bigger Thomas, the hero and the protagonist of the novel, experiences escape which takes place within an urban maze that has come to be called black ghetto. ... Black Boy,...
Running Head: A CHILD CALLED IT: One Child's Courage to Survive A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Abstract This is one of the best, yet saddest books that I have ever read. ... A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Summary A Child Called "It" is a story based on a little boy's tribulations with his mother's shocking abuse. ... I'm a bad boy!" ... He, too, knew David was a "good boy." ... She kept telling David how he was a bad boy. ...
The plot is about a sixteen year old boy, Gene Forrester, the narrator of the book, returns to the Devon School, were he had graduated fifteen years ago. ... He has a best friend, called Phineas or Finny, who is an athletic boy, that always brakes the school rules and constantly somehow gets out of the problems he gets into. ... Being in the war, Finny is the only boy at Devon that doesn't fear it. ... The doctor then calls on Gene to tell him what happened, and he does so. ... In the beginning of the book, I thought that Gene was a good, loving boy in toward of his best friend and cared ...
Magnus reveals this and other flaws through Boy's choice of name. While Magnus has chosen a name that represents worldly power, Boy has "chosen to forever be a Boy " (Davies, 252). ... Boy struggled to accept his failure, representing the Self-archetype. He foolishly tried to force the negative attention to Dunstan who quickly called him out on it. ... Davies symbolically displays the rebirth of Dunstan, Magnus and Boy throughout the entire novel and most specifically through the scene where Dunstan reveals Magnus' true identity to Boy. ...
When reading Boy's Life, one of the most eye-catching elements is the setting. ... Boy's Life is set in the early 1960s in "a place called Zephyr, in south Alabama. ... Another predominant element to Boy's Life is descriptive imagery. ... The third component that completes Boy's Life is personification, which is the art of giving human traits to inanimate objects. McCammon personifies many inert objects in Boy's Life, but one in particular stands out. ...
A Child Called "it" In his two novels A Child Called "it", and The Lost Boy, the author, Dave Pelzer explains about his childhood. During that time, author was a young boy from an age 3 to an age 9. David's mother has started to call him " The Boy" and "it." ... In the basement, he would sleep eat and stay there until he is called for his chores. ... A Child Called 'It' is a first-person narrative of a severely abused child who has survived to tell his tale. ...
Title: A Child Called "It" Author: Dave Pelzer Copyright: 1995 Setting: This story took place in Daly City in 1973 Main Characters: Dave Pelzer is a little boy in first grade. ... She called the principal. ... The principal then called her. ... He's such a terrific boy. ... When I read this book, I wished I were in the story to save the little boy. ...