Is it david or it?

Authors note: You think your life is bad? Try being David Pelzer for a day. He is another child suffering from child abuse. His mother Catherine Roeva is an alcoholic that is completely abusive to David.  She has a couple other children, but she doesn't hurt them. She is struggling with her marriage and is blaming it all on David.
   
“Life is a struggle, wondering if I’d get fed today, sometimes dad sneaks past Mother and comes to gives me bread. She started with the mirror treatment today.” The mirror treatment is when she smashes his face into a mirror and smears his face all over the broken glass. “I decided that if I cry that would give her pleasure. I don't want her to be happy...” this reminds me of the time I got in a fight with my friends and I didn’t want them to be happy. David had many struggles in life,  but it helped him be a better person. 
  

 “Today is the day; I am going to steal from the grocery. My stomach is calling out to me. I'm starving, I am afraid mother will catch me. But i want the food so badly.” After he steals a couple times he gets caught. She makes him throw up the food and eat the throw up.  Eww that reminds me of the time I flu and I was throwing up.

  “Today we went to the store. I usually sit in the car but mother let me come in today. She told me to keep my hand clamped to the cart. I didn't, I started to run away. Mother caught me and had a new plan- the gas chamber”.  The gas chamber is when she locks him in the bathroom and puts a mixture of ammonia and bleach in the middle. After a few minutes David passes out. But his mom opened the door. He could have been killed. If this were to happen to me I would run right out of the house and scream the whole way. This also reminds me of Ann franks story with the Holocaust.

Many more strange punishments go on . But soon after he is sent to child services. His mother gets thrown into jail and his father seems to disappear. He survives the wrath of his own mother. I don’t think that is fair to try to make your kids life horrible. He soon after would goin the army , and visit the mother. He is emotionally startled .But he is extremely storng and holds his head high up in the sky.

Magic of the Pants

Authors note : The book Sister hood of the traveling pants is a author  that sure does know things about a commitment. 4 girls are on a journey to growing up. It can be hard but they will never grow apart. They find out that they are not going to be together as a group. All are going different ways.

Some people believe that if you start out as a shy girl you stay a shy girl. For Carmen this doesn't happen, she starts out a shy girl and doesn't go back. Tibby  is a totally hippie. Lena is the "soccer girl" . Bridget is one who doesn't believe in a real relationship. 

But what will happen when they all get split up for the summer? Ann Brascerahs  was probably asking herself all of these thing while writing this novel. Will they stay friends? Keep the secret pants "CODE" ? Will they all come back the same as always or with different personality?

This book is a great book for teen and older! It has soom parts that parents may not approve of. But it also gives a life lessons . Like, Don't drink and drive. Its not ok to fall in love if it will kill your friendship with a friend.

But remember , your feelings may change. Your friends may change . Your boyfriend my change .But never forget where your roots are, the pants will always be magical.