A Child Called It Genre Analysis

Genre theory is used as a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. In using genre theory we create a short cut in the way we describe films. In order to understand genre we may look at several examples. When we speak of horror we know that in this category we expect to see monsters, blood, or the expectation for everyone to die. As for in a western movies we know that there will be cowboys, dry climate, guns, mild violence, and horses. Another example would be “ A Child Called It”. This is considered to be an autobiography. Autobiographies tells the audience about a person life. The audience who go to these films expect to see events from the main characters’ past.
He was treated like a dog. Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. His mother didn’t allow him to eat and she knew better not to throw food away cause she know that he would dig it out and eat it if she did. I also believe that the child called it could be a mystery because we didn’t know if the mother would beat him brutally or to death. I also think is a mystery because you didn’t know if the school would keep telling his mom on his for stealing for from school. So he would continue to get beat by his mom. Or would they call child protective services. The child called it is also a romance because once he got away from him crazy, abusive mother and move away with his new foster mom he meet a beautiful young lady name sandy. He love her big old brown eyes and curl ark brown hair. He totally fell head over hills for her. He fell in love with her at first sight. He was finally happy that he could be with the one person that believe in him and want the best for him he wanted to marry her and have his first child. In the child called it the boundaries of romance would be expanded if his mother wasn’t a single parent and she had a husband to support her, maybe she wouldn’t have been so