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1) This is about a child at 5, 1973, and David is in the school nurses office. He is answering questions about his mother again, and soon the principal enters the room. The young boy is afraid because he knows when his mother hears of this meeting his life will be even more miserable. The boy is relieved because if he is in jail his mother cannot punish him for what he has told them. When the officer dials David’s home phone number, David is paralyzed by fear, but the officer reassures him it will be okay. “David Pelzer,” he says, “you’re free.”
3) This is about a child with one the point impact me in pages to 90 this child was got a hurt in his chest I thing he was punished with his parents in the basement so this child. He improve himself healing theirs wounds that is one of main point this book has it.
4) Mother's rage seemed focused on Dave only, excluding his two brothers. Soon, the abuse also included such mental punishments as starvation and long stints in cold baths. When mother gave birth to two more sons, the punishments only became harsher, as the privileges of the other boys became more luxurious. Dave would often spend time lying in the cold bath while listening to Mother sharing fun times with the other boys, like telling scary stories on Halloween and opening presents on Christmas.
5) In fact the bud protagonist in this case was the mother of Dave, because she never love him such as the other two brothers of him. Father was Dave's only protection. When Father was home, Mother's punishments were never as severe. However, Father failed to protect Dave on most occasions.
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7) The first point I learned is about a child with story very great, one of the books that I read because the child he was surfed by his parents and I thing is not good when some parent does not love their children in the same way he had a bad time without these things that he had .and the other thing I read in this book and I learned
8) I loved to this book I read o lot of

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