Proposal

De Anda Jocelyn

November 14, 2011

Professor Marca

English 113A

Proposal

            Reading is an important ability in which everyone will need. It can either become a passion or an enemy. Reading became my best friend as a child and developed my point of views as a mature teenager.  A book change people’s views, perspectives, believes and thoughts.

            Through the life story of Dave Pelzer in the book A Child Called It, I realized how serious and real the child abuse in this country is. Through the eyes and experience of Pelzer one is brought into a world of misery and pain. Pelzer had a great life up to a point, his mother became an alcoholic and Dave Pelzer was her target. He was treated worse than an animal he was seen as just an object. Pelzer took abuse from his mother from her breaking his body parts, burning his arm to shoving a dirty used diaper with human discharges in his face. The story can only bring one pain and sympathy for Pelzer but hate and anger toward the mother.

This book was a life changing experience for me. With every beating and suffrage the young boy suffered I grew hate towards the mother. I had always known the love and compassion I had for children. I wanted to be the voice for the younger children whom could not speak up against their abuse parents. I wanted to stop the abuse and not have to see life stories like Dave Pelzer’s. This book inspired me to become a social worker and be there for children. With literature I was educated and lead to the path in which I was destined to be.