Book report: Don't tell mummy
Book title: Don’t Tell Mummy
Author: Toni Maguire
Summary:
This book is based on the childhood of the author. Antoinette’s life had been perfect
that it had been full of love before her father came back. She was raped by her
father when she was six. She told her mother about that but her mother denied
it. Since then, her mother treated her badly even she knew her husband abusing
Antoinette. Antoinette was abused by her father from the age of six to fourteen till
he got her pregnant and he was jailed. However, people then discriminated her and
to erase her past, she changed her name into Toni.
Reflection:
ruined by being abused. These nightmares still haunted her on and on even in many
years after. She tried very hard to hide it in the bottom of her heart. Her physically
and mentally hurt cannot be healed. This shows that how much child abuse affects
victims’ life and makes the victims live in harder lives than the others’. In this case,
most people will blame it on the abusers. However, I think insiders, victims and the
government should take the responsibility too.
From this book, readers can see how an innocence girl’s childhood being
Firstly, insiders are the one who ignore the pain of abused children.
Insiders usually are family members of the abusers and suffering children. They
know about the whole tragedy but they remain silence in order to keep their so call
“family”. Let’s take one of the cases which was reported in Hong Kong in 2011. A
fifty-one-year-old father raped his three daughters. One of them had abortion while
two of them had infected with sexually transmitted disease. Their mother knew the
affair inside out as her husband had raped their daughter in front of her. However,
she didn’t report it that she was too scared to lose her family. She didn’t realize that
when one of the family members has to endure being abused, the warmth of family
is gone
Author: Toni Maguire
Summary:
This book is based on the childhood of the author. Antoinette’s life had been perfect
that it had been full of love before her father came back. She was raped by her
father when she was six. She told her mother about that but her mother denied
it. Since then, her mother treated her badly even she knew her husband abusing
Antoinette. Antoinette was abused by her father from the age of six to fourteen till
he got her pregnant and he was jailed. However, people then discriminated her and
to erase her past, she changed her name into Toni.
Reflection:
ruined by being abused. These nightmares still haunted her on and on even in many
years after. She tried very hard to hide it in the bottom of her heart. Her physically
and mentally hurt cannot be healed. This shows that how much child abuse affects
victims’ life and makes the victims live in harder lives than the others’. In this case,
most people will blame it on the abusers. However, I think insiders, victims and the
government should take the responsibility too.
From this book, readers can see how an innocence girl’s childhood being
Firstly, insiders are the one who ignore the pain of abused children.
Insiders usually are family members of the abusers and suffering children. They
know about the whole tragedy but they remain silence in order to keep their so call
“family”. Let’s take one of the cases which was reported in Hong Kong in 2011. A
fifty-one-year-old father raped his three daughters. One of them had abortion while
two of them had infected with sexually transmitted disease. Their mother knew the
affair inside out as her husband had raped their daughter in front of her. However,
she didn’t report it that she was too scared to lose her family. She didn’t realize that
when one of the family members has to endure being abused, the warmth of family
is gone