The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer is a stunning and captivating sequel to Pelzer's bestselling novel titled "A Child Called It." In the book A Child Called It, the author tells the story of a boy of about four years old whose family started out like any other “perfect” family, until his mother began to become very aggressive towards him. Things started to get worse and he soon found himself in a difficult situation. The novel ends with David ending the day with his son at a place where he went with his family when he was younger and there were no problems yet. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay In The Lost Boy the scene begins in the winter of 1970 in Daly City, California. Dave is now nine years old and still being abused by his mother. He describes the place he once called “home” as a “prison” and is now his mother's prisoner. He is not considered part of the family and receives little or no food to eat. He is given specific household tasks with a time limit for each and is punished if he does not complete them when the time is up. His school had become his safe haven even though even there he was still an outcast. He started stealing food from school because that was the only way he could get food without his mother knowing until one day he was caught. As soon as he came home from school his mother made him vomit to see if he had stolen food. One day he was given the opportunity to escape from prison and he took it but it wasn't long before he was back in his mother's grasp. When he went to school, his mother told him that if people asked him why he had bruises and things like that, he would lie about what happened, but even then it wouldn't take long for people to catch on to the lies. On March 5, 1973, staff members at his school had enough information about his situation and called the police to inform them. That same day the policeman took him away and reassured him that his mother would never lay hands on him again. He was then taken to a foster home, won against his mother in court and then recognized as a permanent ward of the court. Feeling finally free from his mother's entrapments, he began going from foster home to foster home. Not knowing what it meant to be free and have to be responsible for himself and the actions he would eventually take, he began to get into trouble. The feeling of being wanted, appreciated and appreciated convinced him to commit actions that landed him in the San Mateo County Reformatory. He is visited by many people, including his father who he hasn't seen in a while and is scolded by him because Dave's mother has been waiting for an opportunity like this where Dave would finally make a mistake and use the situation to his advantage. advantage and to have it institutionalized definitively. as well as to justify the actions he had taken towards her. It failed and Dave was later released. His behavior changed and he soon realized that his mother would never care for him and that the mother and father he was looking for would not be found in his biological parent but in his latest adoptive parents. He enlists in the Air Force and the novel ends with him getting on a plane stating that this is where his adventure begins. In this novel itself, Dave suffers physical, verbal, and emotional abuse. His mother loved to play “games” with him, such as making him stand in front of her without speaking or moving. He would then proceed to grab himthe ear and then to slap him because he flinched or moved. He was no longer called Dave or son, rather he was "the boy" or "it" and was brainwashed into believing that he deserved everything his mother was putting him through. The hero he once knew was now nothing more than a person reluctant to help him. Dave's father lied for his wife about why Dave ran away from home at that time scolded him later telling him to stay away from his mother's ways and do whatever he wanted because he was making his fathers hard to handle. His mother used tactics such as isolation, for example he was no longer allowed to play with his siblings, or leave the house except for school. She also used emotional abuse, as stated in the previous paragraph, where she would humiliate him by not even acknowledging him as her son and making him feel like he was nothing more than "a child, as we called him." She would use her adult privilege by treating Dave worse than a servant, always punishing and bossing him around, and using intimidation to instill fear in him. After managing to escape her grasp, Dave found himself years later seeing his brother Russell again and noticing familiar abusive behaviors from his mother that she now instilled in his brother. Throughout this novel, almost everyone has tried to help him, except his father. when he could have told the police officer the truth when he went to the police station to pick up Dave after he ran away. Instead he covered for his wife and let the abuse continue. Since this story is two books, most of the people who could have chimed in are in the first novel. For example, once again his father prevented the situation from getting to where it ended up. The grandmother who could have done something about it and maybe her first school staff who didn't investigate why she was stealing food. Dave's abuse ends as previously stated when he goes to school one day and is called in with the nurse, the principal and some of his teachers who investigated why he comes to school with old and torn clothes, bruises, marks of burn and a scar where the knife cut him when his mother stabbed him. They call the police and take him away. This is when the physical abuse ends. The emotional abuse doesn't end until she finally feels at home with her newest foster parents. It's hard to say which type of abuse Dave suffered was the worst because every abuse his mother inflicted on Dave was horrible. If it had to be just one, emotional abuse would be the worst because his mother had so much power over him that she conditioned his brain to think he deserved everything he went through because he was a “bad boy” and was a disappointment. Sometimes emotional pain is worse than physical pain. It takes longer to heal emotional wounds than physical ones. Despite everything Dave went through while he was with his mother, the strength of initially trying to make his parents proud to try to prove them wrong about him and that he was not a bad boy but a good one gave him the strength to move forward. The little hope he had of one day being able to free himself from the abuse gave him the strength to continue his days. Sometimes those who suffer only once become severely scarred, damaged and can no longer try to move forward, but Dave was the opposite. He suffered immensely and yet he didn't let it hurt him to trust the people who helped him and loved him. The things he went through made him even stronger. It's like the saying “What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger”. A?