A Child Called "It" explores the traumatic history of child abuse and how the choices a person makes affect one's sense of belonging. belonging to another. The story has only one point of view as it is a biography written by the man who experienced trauma at such a tender age. David Pelzer, as a child, faced daily rejection, not only from his mother, but also from his classmates, his teachers, and ultimately, his greatest enemy, himself. A Child Called "It", as the title denotes depreciation and an impersonal relationship between audience and audience. text, begins the biography with a dark and solemn theme because there is no definition of "it", so titling a book "a child called it" gives the audience the idea that the child does not exist , or as he tells it later in the story, a child who is treated as if he did not exist. The author compares his mother in different contexts, from when his "mother" was a good, caring mother to when his "mother" became abusive. Mom and Mother are used throughout the text to show the audience the different emotions he had carried for her. Mom is more personal and informal, but suggests a close relationship between the two, as used in the chapters he remembers when his mother was a normal, caring mother. The mother is used in chapters in which he was abused and suggests a more distant relationship due to the formal structure of the language. When "Mom" was used, the emotions David Pelzer felt towards her were nothing other than those that belonged to him. When you tell a child something so often, he begins to believe it. In this case, David Pelzer was ordered to repeatedly say "I'm a bad boy, I'm a bad boy...", which caused him to be psychologically brainwashed into believing that he was was. That every time he was physically... in the middle of a paper... thrown out, surrounding him as he said "I had a ready-made excuse that my mother made me." The ending does not end on a "happily ever after" note, but rather in a dull and gloomy tone as it appears throughout the text. Sarcasm, contrast and similes are the main language features presented in the book to evoke disgust, torment and shock throughout the audience, showing them either how she viewed the abusive behaviors that were inflicted on her or the brainwashing “excuses” he learned from his mother. Non-belonging is the struggle in this text that was not resolved by the ending, making it a dark and gloomy tone and the language features used also evoke a dark feeling in the reader. A Child Called “It” truly explores the meaning of struggle. with belonging due to the actions of others rather than their own and provides appropriate use of imagery to emphasize the meaning of the biography.