Dave Pelzer's 'The Lost Boy'
Research Assignment
The Lost Boy
December 5, 2012
PSY 238
The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer is a story that reveals the pain, challenges, and anxiety of a child who has been rescued from his worst nightmare. The second novel to memorable and haunting trilogy, the book describes Pelzer’s experiences through his bewildering adolescent years in the foster care system. The reader follows Pelzer on a journey in search for self-discovery and the one thing he has ever had the privilege of feeling: normalcy.
Pelzer’s strength, determination, and unbreakable spirit shine throughout the pages of the book. The theme Pelzer is trying to communicate to the readers is relevant, exciting, and interesting. Pelzer’s experience is written from the …show more content…
The trials of Pelzer’s past greatly shape how he will evolve in his adolescence. Pelzer also emphasizes the importance of the foster system and the difference foster parents can make in the lives of foster children.
Pelzer explains that human development is the process of emotional, physical, behavioral, and cognitive growth throughout a lifetime. He stresses how traumatic events cause an enormous change in the early stages of life. Throughout the process people develop the attitudes, values, and morals that will eventually guide a person’s future choices, understandings, and relationships. In this very somber book, Pelzer shares how trauma affects a person.
Pelzer wants the reader to know that even though a person has little to know no control over what they go through as children, they do however, have control of how they react. Pelzer’s trilogy is somber to say the least, but also inspirational. He has a couple main goals in his books and they are that with hope comes perseverance and one’s will to rise above the past. The other is that a person can only get so far on their own before they need the help and guidance from others, whether it is a teacher, social worker, police officer, foster parent, or a
The Lost Boy
December 5, 2012
PSY 238
The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer is a story that reveals the pain, challenges, and anxiety of a child who has been rescued from his worst nightmare. The second novel to memorable and haunting trilogy, the book describes Pelzer’s experiences through his bewildering adolescent years in the foster care system. The reader follows Pelzer on a journey in search for self-discovery and the one thing he has ever had the privilege of feeling: normalcy.
Pelzer’s strength, determination, and unbreakable spirit shine throughout the pages of the book. The theme Pelzer is trying to communicate to the readers is relevant, exciting, and interesting. Pelzer’s experience is written from the …show more content…
The trials of Pelzer’s past greatly shape how he will evolve in his adolescence. Pelzer also emphasizes the importance of the foster system and the difference foster parents can make in the lives of foster children.
Pelzer explains that human development is the process of emotional, physical, behavioral, and cognitive growth throughout a lifetime. He stresses how traumatic events cause an enormous change in the early stages of life. Throughout the process people develop the attitudes, values, and morals that will eventually guide a person’s future choices, understandings, and relationships. In this very somber book, Pelzer shares how trauma affects a person.
Pelzer wants the reader to know that even though a person has little to know no control over what they go through as children, they do however, have control of how they react. Pelzer’s trilogy is somber to say the least, but also inspirational. He has a couple main goals in his books and they are that with hope comes perseverance and one’s will to rise above the past. The other is that a person can only get so far on their own before they need the help and guidance from others, whether it is a teacher, social worker, police officer, foster parent, or a