A Child Called “IT” by Dave Pelzer
Chapter Six “While Father Is Away”
Directions: Answer the following questions using details from the book.
1. How did the father change after the “accident”?
2. What promises did the father make to David?
3. How was David treated when the father was away?
4. Describe the bathroom “game”.
5. How did David survive this game?
6. How did the mother use David to earn money?
7. Describe the bathtub/backyard treatment.
8. How was David’s substitute teacher different from other teachers?
9. What was David’s life at school now like?
10. Why did the nurse call David into her office?
11. How did David’s brothers treat him?
12. Where did David start to sleep?
13. How was David treated by his father and his brothers when his mother was in the hospital?
14. What happened with the neighbor Shirley?
15. Why did the mother start treating David with kindness?
16. Why was David so easily fooled?

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

because they were not just any seashells they were sally's seashells

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

educational segregation in the us prior to brown.

the members of the u.s. supreme court that on may 17, 1954, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

judgment and order of the supreme court for the case.

u.s. circuit judges robert a. katzmann, damon j.

the u.s. supreme court's decision in brown v. board of education marked a turning point in the history of race relations in the united states. on may 17, 1954, the court stripped away constitutional sanctions for segregation by race, and made equal opportunity in education the law of the land.