Summary of A Child Called "It" Chapter 7

In chapter 7, this is the chapter were David just stops believing in God all together.  He stopped believing in God because he kept praying for the beating's to stop.  David said when he was around four when the beatings first began.  He prayed to God that night and hope that his mother would get sick and sure enough his mother was sick the next day so no beatings for him for about a week.  But since then God stopped helping him he prayed almost every night and begged for the beatings to stop, he begged to have everything go back to the way it was when his mother a loving mother who treated him with respect.  No one was there for David when he needed them his brothers were participating in the beatings, his father wouldn't help him anymore his father just do what she says and you wont get beat.  That wasn't far to David he didn't have anyone to look up too.  He had no hero and he had no role models.  He was waiting for him to wake up from this nightmare.  


"Get one thing straight, you little son of a bitch! There is nothing you can do to impress me! Do you understand me? you are a nobody! An It! you are nonexistent! your are a bastard child! I hate you and i wish you were dead! Dead! do you hear me? Dead!"
This is the worst thing a mother could say to a child! This quote really gives the book its title, she called her child an it! It broke my heart a little.


Why did David stop believing in God?


He stopped believing God because he wasn't answering David's prayers.
David fought back with is mother because he was tired of her pushing him around like a rag doll.