A New Family

David mother ignoring him

      David stayed little time in the foster child care after the trial. Ms. Gold looked for a family as fast as she could for David, there were many family's that would like to adopt a child but they need lot of requirements. Until one day Ms. Gold came to the foster care and said to David "you are leaving." They pack up all David’s properties and leave with lot of happiness. He get in the car and talk with Ms. Gold, they mostly talk of his new family, she told him that it was a good family that her new mother is a really good person and that he will have a very good life in this new family. Once they reach his new house, they saw this big white house and Ms. Gold tell him, "we are here." She knock the door and this young women came out, it was David new mother, Mrs. Catanze. They get in the house and she presented all his new family members; Larry Junior, Big Larry and Connie. Even though this is a short list of names they got lot of children's as their "children's" This family was dedicated to take care of foster child's, they have adopted 2 kids more that Mrs. Catanze take care of. Mrs. Catanze was a very good women she treated David very well, she gave him food, a bike and new clothes. He was living a very good life with his family. One day David and Lilian (Mrs. Catanze) were talking and the bell of the door rang. David went and open the door and what he saw was no good, it was mother. She came to the house as an invitation of Lilian, she was with his kids (David´s brothers) and she get in the house and talk with Lilian. David felt very bad, mother didn't even see him, and she ignored him as if he was a no one.

        David with his new family and stuff was having a new bike. He was given a bike and he ride it all the days until the night, he enjoyed having this bike, once he was riding it he remembered that mother let him ride bike for one time in his life and this time was before she started abusing him. Once he ride lot of times his bike he told Lilian...

  "That day was the first time I felt that I was a normal kid." (97)

       

       This quote really get to our heart, when David said this we can even feel his joy. This is another evidence of how mother treated him, another evidence of how she destroyed David psychology. When he said this we can guess that he felt that he was a no one before when he was with mother and not only tell us how bad is mother, but on how this new family will help him.

Is conected to what David mother didnt give David (love)
and what Lilian will give him

        Later on, when David mom came to visit him, David was feeling very bad. When she left he cried, and tell everything to Lilian, everything that her mom did to him. How she made him eat poop, how he stabbed him, how she threat to kill him and how she tell him that she hates David. Lilian felt very sorry with him and cried too. She didn’t knew anything of this, so she tried to cheer him up, and Lilian said...

"It´s all right. I´m right here. Everything´s going to be all right."(103)    

     This quote by Mrs. Catanze will make David have lot of trust with Lilian. When Lilian said this we know that she loves David and that he will be a good "mom", she will take care of him and David will have a good life. Lilian will always be taking care of him and while David is with Mrs. Catanze he will be secure and mother will never do anything to him. One simple quote like this if someone tell to us it will be like a simple " I love you" that is very common for us, but for David this can mean a world, one little piece of love he receive would mean a lot after everything that mother do to him.

      In conclusion for this chapters of the book I think that David’s life is changing a lot and in a good way. Now he receives love from people, he have clothes and he enjoys with his bike. He is having lot of joy in his life, even though he still have some problems, he is starting to get them through, he is starting to forget mother. For the next chapters I predict that David is going to have some new problems but now with a new person, Larry Jr. I think this because when he first came to the house (David) Larry Jr said he was a wimp and since he is in a difficult age were everything sucks for him, I think that David will face Larry Jr later on. As I want to keep reading more and more this book, I want to find out what new problems David will need to face and how will he get through all of them as he have done until this far.                                                                                                                                                    

Looking Back the Past

Foster parents need of  David

    After the incident of the police David returned back to home and he was stilled punished by mother and nothing changed. Even mother treat him worst, after some days the cops came to the house and take David. This was a flashback to the first book were in the first chapters they talk about this scene, were he go to the police station and they told him to don't worry that he is going to be fine, and this is the same phrase as they used in this book. So he is toked to the police station and then to an orphanage were they would wait until any family would like to take him as a new family member. David was suffering of fear, fear that mother came any day and take him to the home again, he couldn't sleep any night and dreamed that mother toked him with her again. In this foster child care or orphanage he was treated well they gave him food and he socialized with other children's that stay there. Later on a lawyer came named Ms. Gold, she was the one in care of David situation and of the trial that they were having in some days with mother. Ms. Gold helped David in everything, she ave him food, clothes and love, but David didn't help at all he was afraid of telling what mother does to him and if he didn't tell anything he would return back to his mother. Ms.Gold gave David a promise that mother would never ever touch him again and that phrase is what changed David attitude. Now he cooperated with Ms. Gold so they could win the trial. Finally the trial day came and they went to church they both gave their evidence and at the final David won this trial. He was going to be selected a family that will take care until he is 18. Some days after mother came to the foster child care, she was going to give David some clothes of him and toys and once she was alone with David she told " I'm going to get you back."   

     David was having lot of problems, psychological problems of fear with her mother. He was afraid that she will get back and take him with her, so he didn't tell anything that mother does to her to any one, he didn't trust in anyone. So they could gain some trust the doctors, Ms. Gold and the foster parents told him...

"Your mother is never going to hurt you   again." ( 73)

     This quote demonstrate us that not only that want to take out information from David so they win the trial, but it shows how this people (Ms, Gold, cops, doctors,etc) need to tell so they can gain the trust of David in telling the truth of his life. David has serious problems and he will have them inside his mind for maybe the rest of his life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Related to how they try to gain trust with David

      But there is obviously a reason of why David has this fear to mother. Not only because she make him physical damage but she get into his head too. Once David was in the foster care and without mother anymore when mother get to the foster care to see him she told him...

"Boy… get this straight! I don't care what they say! I don’t care what they do! You're not out of this yet! I´ll get you back! You hear me? I´ll get you back!"(53)

     Once mother told him this his levels of un-trust and fear may grew like to a 100%, she threaten David to get him back, that nothing is finished...That she is not finished with him. So David may not want to even leave the house, to get out, as in the book said he couldn't even sleep. So this type of psychological problems are very hard to get through and David will have this quote and this fear in his mind for life.

      Summarizing, this chapters were mostly of a rewind to the first part of the other book and they talk about how he was saved and toked to the trial. Were he can never see mother again and live the rest of his life as any other life. It also tells us how mother controlled him and make him fear her and how this will hurt the development of the trial. For the next chapters I predict that David is still going to have this problems but he is going to find a family that will take care of him, but this family is not going to be as he thought and also is going to treat him as a no one. So he would try to contact Ms. Gold for help and any time Ms. Gold is going to be the one that will take care of him for the rest of his life.

After "A Chilld Called It"

                 "The Lost Boy" as the sequel of the first novel "A Child Call It" is about what happened after the first book. This book talks about David’s life from ages 12 to 18 and the first chapters are a rewind to what happened in the first book. After talking about what happened before, David got the chance to get out of home. To escape from his mother that have treated him as an "It". Mother was very frustrated at that time like she is all time and she shouted David to leave the house. As an intelligent kid, David turn around, open the door and left the house. It was night and it was cold but he thought that it was better than living in the basement. But escaping was not going to be the solution, he thought that it was too easy to scape and he thought that it might be a dream. He kept walking until he get to a pizza restaurant, one man was eating and he left the tips. As David saw that he decided to steal the 25 cents he left, one of the man’s working in the pizza restaurant saw that and went to David and said "Why did you get the 25 cents, they are not yours. “David with fear didn’t answer and return the money steeled. As a good men the pizza worker made David enter the restaurant and he promise to give him a piece of pizza. David once he entered the restaurant he felt warm and secure as he haven’t felt for years. But walking at that time and being a kid of so young age was not normal, the pizza men called a police officer to come and get David so he take him to the police station to see what happened to him. After the men gave the pizza to David he told him that he called a police to get him, David after that went crazy. He felt fear of mother and angry of the pizza men reporting him. Once he get to the police station, they called father to get to the police station and explain why he is in the street. Father came and explained that it was a miss understanding and that everything at home is "ok." Father lied to the police men and the police men told David that he can’t left the house because of things like that. But he was wrong, and he can’t judge that because he didn’t knew all the story, the real story. 

David leaving the house

        David after that inconvenient returned to his miserable life, returned to "hell" even when he got the chance to escape from it. One quote that show us how David feel in his head and how mother have destroyed his self stem...

"I wish I were a real person" (21)

        Even thought is a simple phrase, it tells a lot and mostly the need of David leaving the house. He needs urgent help and especially he needs to never see mother again neither return to "The house," He had serious psychological problems, so there is were this quote takes in place and as he said he wished to be a real person. Even though we know he is real person he says that trying to how he is treated. Something I react about this quote is how David can live like this, with that huge feeling of knowing that no one loves you and that you feel like you are invisible and a no one for other people.

        This quote was taken in place by father when he toked out David from the police station and they were in the car getting back to the house. He was telling David how mother was acting and how the house was on "fire" and there is where father told him to try to make her happy.

"Can you just try and make her happy?"(31)

This represent when David is being grounded 

        This quote in my point of view is completely unacceptable, I can’t understand how his one father knowing all the truth of how mother treat David can tell this, David try everything to get a better relationship with her and the mother, the only thing she does is punish him. No child deserves this specially if is a 9 year old one because they do not do nothing and if they do something wrong is because of their innocence.

        Summarizing everything,  this part of the book mostly talks of the same as the first book, about the abuse of mother on David. It also has something new that is when David left the house and that is something that David was scared of and he need to charge a lot of courage to leave the house. Leaving the house was his dream but also his fear. We found another theme in this part that is power and this relates with the power that mother has on David and in his whole house. For the next chapters I predict that mother is going to keep punishing David because of nothing and any time David may be tired and tell a police what is happening to him and they will get mother and help David to scape from this "house of hell."