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.
“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.
“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.
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