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The Lost Boy
David Pelzer has been beaten by his mother for years. He's the outcast in his family. His mother, father and four borthers barely agnoliges his exstistance. His school soon finds out whats happening at home and file a report. David gets put in a foster home but his mom is anxious to get him back. I chose this book because i read the book call "The Child Called It" and it's very good. This is the second book and it was even better then the first. This is one of my favorite books by David Pelzer. -
Event 1 - The Lost Boy
David's mother and father are arguing on how his mother treats David. His mother then says that David is free to leave the house and not come back. David takes the oppotunity and run to a local bar. This is an important event because David has never left the house except for school. It's Davids chance to break free from his mother. David goes to the bar and someone notices and gives him food and calls the police. His father comes and tells the police David ran away because he didn't get his way. -
Event 2 - The Lost Boy
March 5, 1973 David fianllay got his wish and was put into a foster home. The school had found out and field a report. This was mageraly important because David is out of his house and in a foster home. Hes getting ready for court whether he stays with his mom or becomes a ward of the court. The gudge rules that he becomes a ward of the cout until he's 18. This was very good for David's physical health that he is away from his mother and brothers. David is sad after that he won't see his mother. -
Event 4 - The Lost Boy
David's second foster home is the Catanze's house. David Stays there for a long time. He feels Mrs. Catanze is his mother. David lives with other foster children and looks up to Big Larry. He feels Big Larry is actaully has a brother. This is good because David has felt alone most of his life. Think: I felt that David now has a role model he can look up to, someone he can trust and someone he can truly love as a family member. David has a place where he can fianlly call home and feel safe. -
Event 5 - The Lost Boy
Not shortly after living with the Catanze's david begins to steal again. David hangs around the wrong kids and they influence him to steal toys for them. David gets caught and Mr. Catanze threatened that he would take David to Hill Crest if he kept getting into trouble. David did'nt care what the punishment was as long as he didn't get beaten Thinking: I felt that one of the reasons to steal was to gain approvel from other kids. David never really has had an actually friend since he was little. -
Event 6 - The Lost Boy
Entering a new school David made new friends. Once again he joined the wrong group. In oreder for John and David to be friends David had to help John Watch for teachers while John Starts a fire in the school. They Got caught and John blames everything on David. Thinking: I felt that once again david did this to have a friend and to fit in with others. Even though David didn't start the fire he still put it out to save John. David was still looking out for John. -
Event 7 - The Lost Boy
Mr. Catnaze Takes David to Hill Crest from starting a fire since he didn't keep his promise on being good. David is not sad or mad that Mr. catnaze is taking him their, he feels he deserves it.Once David gets their he decides to have a plan, Look at no one, Talk to no one and to stay on the low. He's one of the smallest kids and is frightened. Thinking: I felt that David should try again and tell someone that he was only putting the fire out instead of starting it and that John started it. -
Event 8 - The Lost Boy
As David sits in Juvinille Hall his mother is writing a report trying to get him locked up in a mental alsylum. Mrs. Gold David's social worker does the best to explain to David that he has to be on his best behavior so he will have good reports on how hes made progress. They go to court and the judge stance stays the same on where he remains. He remains in foster care. Thinking: I feel David needs to be extra good so he doesn't get locked up in the asylum. He actually has to try to be good. -
Event 9 - The Lost Boy
David had to move out of the Catanze's and move in with the Turnbough's because his new case worker gorden put a new kid with the Catnazes. David now has to adapt to the new location. he starts a new school and hangs out with a hispanic boy named Carlos. Carlos doesn't speak much english but they still became best friends. David still misses the Catanze's a lot. Thinking I feel that David finally has made a new friend that will be good for him. Aslo I feel that a new foster home is good for him -
Event 10 - The Lost Boy
One day after school Carlos and David decided to visit david's old school he went to while living with his mother. David then runs into his brother russel. Russel then says things at home are worse than before. David comes back the next day looking for him only to find his mother. David and Carlos run back to Carlos's. Thinking: I felt David should have never went back to his old school knowing his brothers still went there. Carlos was being a good friend while in the process by helping david. -
Event 11 - The Lost Boy
David is now at a new foster home and meets to guys named Paul and Dave. Over time they become best friends. David has never had a best friend before so he charish's ever more they spend together. Paul helps David with a date with a girl down the street only to find out that the mom doesn't approve of her daughter seeing a foster child. Thinking: I feel that it is rude by telling someone that they can't see their daught because your in a foster home. Lots of people go there for different reasons -
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This book overall was amazing. I read this book in 7th grade and i re read it this year again because i liked it that much. I wish there was a movie but it would be kind of sad considering it's a true story. I wish that it wasn't but these things happen. I would totally recormmed this to a friend it's really such a good book overall. Theirs one more book after this and i plan on reading it once a again. If I could ask a question to his mother I would just ask why? why did you hate him so much?
