Child called It #2

think this discussion didn’t go so well because I read the whole book so I didn’t have any questions. In this second part of the book,David would try and find various ways to feel safe like having his mom’s friends over and going where his dad was present. In this chapter,his mom also stabbed him on the stomach on accident because she was waving the knife at him in a threatening way and she tripped because David’s little brother was holding on to her leg. But I think that it was really messed up how she just put a towel on his deep injury and made him finish his chores and still sleep in the cot,instead of taking him to the hospital and letting him sleep in a warm comfy bed.She would come up with new ways of torturing him daily. For example,she gave him a time limit for eating the scraps of food and just so she would mess with him some more,she would take away the plate as soon as he moved to eat it.Another form of torture was making him lay in ice cold water in the tub on his belly for hours,he wasn’t allowed to move. She would also make him barf out the food he had digested at school.Another mean thing she would make him do was mow peoples lawns,if he didn’t make enough money she wouldn’t feed him and she would hit him. it was sad to read about the sad hope his dad would feed him,he would tell him that someday they would leave the “mad house” and go somewhere much better.
David’s only hope was his substitute teacher and his dad. After David quit on his dad rescuing him because he would witness his wife abuse his own son without doing anything. His dad would get drunk to avoid his reality and arguing with his wife. He also gave up on helping out David because his mom constantly fought and argued until she won, she would also make David lie to make his father lose the arguments. When his mom was in labor and in the hospital,his dad allowed David to eat and play with his siblings. But other than that his dad didn’t really help out much. His substitute teacher was new hope because she would make him want to learn and would reward her class with food,she would also give him love. He loved school now.
In these chapters,he also told us that his faith in god diminished after a while. The reason why he stopped believing in god was because he got tired of praying and not seeing any results of his pain and suffering ending. If I were in his position I would also hate god and the whole world because no one is helping me even though im wearing disgusting old clothes,and smell bad and have obvious abuse bruises and marks all over my body.