Characters

The characters of A Child Called "It" are different then any other family ever heard of. In the beginning of the book the mother I think that the mother is very kind and compassionate, but then she changes to cruel and abusive alcoholic. I think she shouldn't have taken her depression and anger out on her sons, because a mother is supposed to help and care for her children and not beat or starve them to death. She has four sons, Dave, Robert, Stephen, and Kenneth. The father is a firefighter and his job would keep him away from home at days at a time. To me, he seems nice and caring for all his sons, even though towards the end he fails to help Dave and leaves him to be a slave of his mother along with the rest of the boys. I don't think that Dave deserved any harm from his mother, he didn't do anything wrong.