First Lit Discussion with A Child Called "It"

The book that my group and I discussed about was A Child Called “It”by Dave Pelzer. During my group discussion, we talked about how sad it is to hear about the character in the story being abused. The main character’s name was David and he had been abused by his mother. We discussed a particular quote from the story.


    “Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.” (pg 41)


    Our group found that Dave’s mother is the worst abusive mother ever. How can a mother hurt their child’s skin? Justice mentioned about how can his mother do that because like David have the mother’s blood and the mother gave birth to it. I wondered about Justice said for a long time. We all agree to each other that we were tearing when we heard the scene about him getting hurt in flame.
   
    One of the topics that we discussed about was what is wrong with the mother and what happened that made his mom to be what she is. We talked about how in the beginning his mom was a nice and warming mother, however at the last chapter of the first paper clip, Dave described how evil and scary his mother was. 


    “Mom was a woman who glowed with love for her children.” (pg 18)
    “Smack! My mother hits me in the face and i topple to the floor.” (pg 3)


    That is a big comparison between his mother then and now. The first quote was in the chapter where he remembers his past and how he felt warmth then. In the second quote, it shows what he was now. There was a big transition from his mother being nice into a rude and bad mom.  

    Lastly, we discussed about how a big liar is his mother because one of the scenes, his mother popped his shoulder and arm. Her mother told him to sleep in the top bunk and in the morning he woke up in the bottom bunk. His mother brought him to the doctor and lied to the doctor that he fell and roll down from the top bunk to the bottom bunk. What a big Liar!