The Lost Boy Analytical Report
“All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These are the words of Dave Pelzer. Dave was a simply man on the outside in the inside he has a dark and painful past. Dave was oppressed from his bruised childhood. He was battered every morning, afternoon, and night from the monster. And this “monster” wasn’t just any soul crushing beast, bitter, old drunk and whom Dave called his “Mother”. Though you might think that she would slap, no it was more than that it was stabbing, punching, etc.
Pursuing this further, in the later chapter of his life (10-13) around that time frame, “She” gave her own son one of the decisions of his life. The first option was stay and get damaged and harmed and possibly dying or live on the streets and fend for your own. This was tough because although he hated being beaten he loved his mother and didn’t want to upset her he just wanted to be accepted. But he thought about the freedom he could have he could do whatever he wanted, go wherever, act that he wanted to act. Never the less one question ran through his mind “will she catch me and if so what would happen”
There was no doubt in his mind that his mother would come looking for him. But he took the chance he had been handed and ran for it. There was a look of disbelief on his face. He kept on repeating it over and over again in his head “what if she gets me”. As he waited a moment to catch his breath he could hear his stomach growling. He hadn’t eaten since lunch yesterday. He needed to eat something as he weighed his options he caught a whiff of the aroma of something delicious coming from a pizza parlor just up the street. He ran and he sat down and cook saw him saw the bruises up and down his arms. Immediately, he called the police and an officer took him to foster home.
To me this story is very sad story about a young boys struggle to survive. Dave Pelzer is a strong, confident man with his whole life ahead of him. He is extremely brave and courageous and the way that he respected his mother. Notice how respected is past tense because he learned that she did was completely wrong. One of the many triumphs he had to face in this book is the fire in the school and when his social security person took his mom to court. These were massively difficult for Dave to comprehend. Nobody denies him anymore he is accepted in the world as a man who faced the trial and won the battle. Now Dave is respected more than anyone will ever be. So I thank the ones who have gone through this but I have just thing to say to all of you. It will get better every step at a time.
