An amazing story or work of fiction this could have been, but when author claims it to be a real life account, he just leaves one with questions, maybe to make one buy and read the second and third part also .
As I finish this book only one question stands by, can someone be such a ‘mother’?
Into the book.
Cruelty of step mother has been, read, seen and foretold and retold in various tales around the world in various cultures and tradition. But when I read through this journey of Dave the ‘boy’, various questions popped up, ranging from “is this fiction?” or “does such rare species exist in this society”? and if this is a real account on a lady who really existed, I would have to refer Dante’s Inferno to decide and yet to be puzzled to put her in the correct place.
Dave was cared, loved and parented well. He does take us through those places where he loved to live with his family, but the story takes an unreal twist when Dave becomes just a ‘boy’ and later a non-existent ‘it’. And the question, ‘why?’ still surrounds me, as I read the second book in the trilogy.
The Boy is made to work without food and water, and is charged the so called ‘third degree torture’ for socializing, for eating food at school, and later for stealing food. Burning the boy on gas flames, making him eat ‘shit’ of his younger brother, locking him inside the bathroom with ammonia gas thus making a virtual gas chamber, and stabbing him with a knife below his chest. Even upon these the boy is seen as ‘bad Boy’ at the school and in the neighborhood. Does a normal man take so much time to understand the cruelty? or the school authorities were blind (no offense meant to blind)? Now the next question, a ‘mother’ who had children before and after Dave, would choose Dave to be punished for her fun, WHY?
The fireman father who was a hero at the city and for the children too, is helpless in front of his wife. He is too weak to even stop ‘mother’ from beating ‘the boy’. He moves out, leaving the ‘boy’ and family, only because he can’t find peace.
Now for those who expect the turn to happen, the school authorities have opened their closed eyes, they saw the terror in the boy’s eyes, what made him a thief, and why is he always stinky. They take up the responsibility to inform Police and free the child, and the Police just take him away and free him…. to? (Sorry don’t ask me, if you can answer upon reading do let me know.)
That’s how it begins and end.
Shout of reader.
The story of hunger, abuse, cruelty has been many. Many legends have dazed their way through these, and fathom their struggles as their stepping stone to the great career they have achieved in their later life. Mike Tyson, Oprah Winfrey all has faced the struggle for food and little humanitarian, but have they ever exaggerated their struggle? Now taking Louise L Hay from the same field as Dave Pelzer, who has also underwent the struggle that Dave had been through. But none has plotted such a ‘baseless’ and non-proof story of his/her life.
If it was a fiction, then it’s a good read. But not a realistic ‘real-life’ story, to be trusted upon.
Mysterious Days of Mysterious Life 