Hope

Authors note: The book A Child Called "it" has a lot of different themes but I chose power of hope. He gave up but he never lost hope.

The main theme of the book A Child Called “It” is the power of hope. Even though he gave up on the hope of ever getting out, the hope he had was different, he hoped it would all end well. He would hope that once it would just be bad enough that he would die and not have to put up with the excruciating pain he went through every day. It wasn’t just physical pain he went through, it was mental pain also. He wasn’t even thought of as part of the family anymore. He was just someone who they were forced to put up with. So instead of welcoming him into the family his mother would beat him until he couldn’t stand and until the pain didn’t affect him anymore.

Imagine being trapped, trapped in life that is lonely and forgotten by the ones you used to think of as your family. Holding in your tears as your are being beaten or trying not to think about your hunger as you are being starved for days. This shouldn’t be any way that someone has to live their life, some people don’t make it out alive because they have just simply just lost hope of every making it out, but in cases people fight through the pain and finally make it out and are finally free.

In the book A Child Called “It” he wished every day that his mother would stop putting him through the pain everyday so he wouldn’t have to go through the hurt any longer. The only thing that kept him from breaking down in front of his mother was that if he did cry or break down in front of her as she was beating him or screaming at him, was that would give her what she wanted, to see him hut from the unbearable pain she put upon him. It would give her the satisfaction of winning all the “games” she had for him.

All the “games” she had for him were not games anyone would want to play, and there is no way of winning them. Most of the games were some kind of torture. She would make him drink chemicals or sit in the bathroom with the chemicals. His mother would make him sit in the bath tub in freezing cold water for hours without moving at all. You would think after going through this kind of pain that you would just give up and let her hurt you, but he never let the pain get to him. He always tried to stay strong through everything. Eventually he got out of this terrible life and got to be free with the hope of a better life away from all the pain and suffering.