LOST BOY. Review on Lost Boy, The - Dave Pelzer

This is one among the most interesting books I have read in my life. It’s simple and touching in the way the life takes its turn.

This is a book about Child abuse , which makes me think a child who’s gone thru all this hardships , what will he become in life.

On the contrary, some children die as a result of their abuse. Some run away and adopt a life on the streets, exploited by sexual predators, forced into prostitution to support themselves and into drug and alcohol abuse to forget their miserable childhood. Others escape in a different way, marrying young and producing children of their own which they in turn frequently abuse, perpetuating the cycle, having had no experience of 'proper' parenting.

In most of the cases what you face in your childhood will definitely be faced by your kids , for having had no experience of 'proper' parenting.

Of course, many also overcome their childhood as Dave did and go on to live happy successful lives, using their negative experiences positively to become excellent parents. Yet most of these bear lifelong mental scars from their trauma, scars which seems lacking in Dave's story.

THE STORY

Lost Boy

This is a story of a child whose mother is a alcoholic and abusive. His only possessions were the old torn clothes he carried in a paper bag; the only world he knew was one of isolation and fear.

This can be a story of the poor in the next neighbour.

The Lost Boy Dave Pelzer relives his life as a foster child, in and out of five different homes.

These are times where it makes us feel all the foster kids are unworthy of love. But through it all Dave never stopped hoping and searching for the love of a real family.

It is a true Biography of Dave between the ages of 4 and 11 years old. It is the story of extreme abuse, inflicted on an innocent child by his sadistic alcoholic mother, who singled him out from his brothers to be systematically tortured, degraded and humiliated both mentally and physically.

Page after Page continues to describe the harrowing abuse that he endured. This is not a book for the faint hearted, since he is subjected to everything from stabbing to starvation and his ordeals are described in graphic detail.

This is without doubt a powerful book that has single-handedly raised awareness of child abuse issues throughout the world.

His experience was undoubtedly terrible and NO child should ever have to experience child abuse in any form.

His books are worth readable and can be of great help in bringing awareness of child abuse to the masses.

Regards

Denny