Rescue my essay

please read this, and tell me how i can improve it. thank you so much for your time! (: – its for my A-level english lit. class.

David Pelzer is an American, award winning author, and also the survivor of the third worst case of child-abuse recorded. He wrote the bestseller novel, ‘A Child Called ‘It’’, which is a true story which reveals Pelzer’s tragic past, describing vividly his life from the age of four, full of torture and cruelty, until he was rescued at the age of twelve. There are three instalments of his incredible story, (‘The Lost Boy’ and ‘A Man Named Dave’), each unfolding the next stage in his remarkable journey, and explain to us how it made him the man he is today.
The first chapter of the book is titled ‘The Rescue’, this is about the day when David’s situation becomes more noticed, and the first step is taken to save Pelzer’s life. For many people, it is important that Pelzer began his story here – since the book has many difficult and vivid extracts, it will help he reader get through them, knowing that there is a safe end to the suffering he experiences.
After ‘The Rescue’ the readers are lead through the happy times of his life, when his parents were “the perfect parents” and how his family was ‘the Brady Bunch of the 1960’s”.
In the second and third chapters, we see a change in all of the main characters – David, his mother and his father. Pelzer describes each of the characters in fine detail, and consequently creates a very realistic character, which I can easily imagine. The obvious change in character is the change which happens in his mother, suddenly she becomes a cruel, abusive monster, Pelzer tells the reader that his relationship with his mother “drastically changed from discipline that developed into a kind of lifestyle that developed out of control.” The readers eventually find out that alcohol might have been the cause for some of the change in her, “Mom got up only to go to the bathroom, get another drink or heat leftover food.” The way Pelzer describes his mothers actions and personality, makes the reader have a strong hatred for the mother. The change in his mother clearly has visible affects on all of the characters. David – her victim transforms from a healthy, happy four year old, to a terrified and timid child, “By this time I had become afraid of Mom. Very afraid.” I think David Pelzer is very strong and brave emotionally. Some readers may forget that he is only 4 years old when this abuse started, and it lasted for most of his childhood. David figured out what he must do in order to survive, and he never gave up on it – something that some four year olds may give up on. “In order to survive, I could never give into her.” He was able to endure all of that torture and he didn’t turn out like his mother he used his past to become a better person. The reader automatically feels sorry for David, something that may have come naturally when we found started to hate his mother for her abusive ways.
A change we can see happening right through the book, is the gradual change of David’s father. We learn that his mother would only torture David when his father wasn’t there, “I loved it when Dad was home. It meant no beating, minor treatments or searches for missing things.” This makes the reader wonder about his father at this point in the book. Is his mother scared of him? Has he abused her, and she is merely taking it out on someone smaller? Maybe some of the readers feel sorry for his Mother when they wonder if she’s been abused, and start to have a dislike towards the father. These two new emotions may fade when we find out that David’s father is trying to help David, and that maybe he too, also become scared of the mother. However, when we see that he eventually gives up trying tot help David we may develop new dislike towards him, as a result there may be mixed emotions for the Father; pity and dislike.
He explains that he was the only one out of his brothers who got punished for the ‘crime’ they commit, this gives the readers the idea of how severe his mothers attitude towards Dave was – and just Dave. We can see that there is a change in David’s brothers. At first they probably felt confused as to why they weren’t the victims, and maybe they feel sorry for David, therefore try to make him feel included, “I would sit and wait for one of my brothers to come into our bedroom, and have him ask if David could come out now and play.” However, they may feel that they can’t be with him a lot of the time, as they would be scared that their mother’s torture would turn to themselves.
As the book progresses the abuse from his mother becomes worse, we witness the effects on David when he steals food in order to survive, and references ‘a box of graham crackers’ as his ‘prize’ – showing his desperation for food, as a result from the starvation he has experienced from his mother.
Since this book was written for a child’s point of view, many of the passages written may

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