David is a twelve year old boy that is brave for escaping the concentration camp where he was born. All David knows is the camp so surviving on the outside is very difficult. David runs at night and sleeps during the day to get to salonika where he snuck onto a ship marked Italy. He then finds a sailor who instead of turning him in helps him get to shore. David gets to a town where he meets
many people who he befriends.
David overhears some people talking in the bakery, they were talking about him. when he heard them talking about him he ran to where he was sleeping, then he gathered his supplies then he started walking out of town. David saw headlights so he layed down on the side of the road when the car stopped and a man got out David got up walked over to them and asked what happened. The man said that he ran out of gas so David got him some gas. The man put some money in David's bag for getting him gas.
David is so serious about getting gas for the man that he let the man watch over his bundle. David saw a woman with a baby and he told her to love and care for him until he could care for himself. David got ready to go back to the town to get the baby so that he could care for him. David was serious about getting out of the camp and finding his mother. David got into the car with the girl that said that she would take him to the house were his mom lives.
David is brave, daring, and serious and he is only twelve years old throughout the whole book. All in all David is all of these things and more because of all of the things that he has done just to get away from the camp and to live with his mom. I Am David is about a boy named David who is brave, daring, and serious.