READING REFLECTION 1

I just finished my first book titled “a child called ‘it’”. At first I really questioned how the book was structured. The first chapter summarized the book briefly, which incidentally made me want to keep reading because there was so much that happened so quickly. The second chapter talked about the life before the ‘child’s’ problem came in to place, I felt this was completely in the wrong order for a reason.  The chapters to follow then described in detail the first chapter.

I constantly commented throughout the book about how deranged this mother had to have been to perform the abuse she did on her son. One of the worst punishments she came up with for him was turning all four elements on the stove to maximum and had her child lie on top of the stove until she allowed him to get down. I almost cried a few times throughout all the things I read that he was put through considering this is based on a true story. I kept thinking to myself “he’s going to kill himself or she is finally going to kill him” but then I realized he obviously will not die because he wrote this book.

I feel this book would be very relatable to anyone who has ever experienced feeling alone, or abuse in general. I wrote down half way through the book that this is easily a text to world connection because of the amount of child abuse there is in the world. I highly recommend this book, kept me wanting to read more.