"A Child Called It" in Perspective by Braden

"A Child Called It" in Perspective by Braden - February 2015 Scholarship Essay

As a high-school student, one simply does not realize how other people have grown up, especially if this student grown up in a very gifted family, both financially and mentally. There are many experiences that would open up a world full of sympathy and kindness to many, many students who have not had a chance to "Walk in someone else's shoes" if you will. To narrow them down to one is difficult, but I think that reading the book "A Child Called It" brings out these previously stated attributes in three ways: it allows the reader to experience what an abused child has gone through, it allows the reader to look at their own daily lives and make more of it knowing they had a blessed childhood, and it allows the reader to be more open toward less-privileged children.

While reading this book, I subjected myself to many emotions that I have never felt before. I felt the sorrow, the longing for a better life, the pain, and, most of all, the happiness in the small things. Since this book was based upon a true story, I believe that it has much more meaning. This means that the man who wrote this book is drawing from his own feelings as he felt them at that point in his life. It really made me think of how special I really am, and that I am so very fortunate to have been born into the family that I have. I feel as though each person who reads this will get something different from it, but whatever that may be is a necessary aspect of interpersonal relationships.

This book was really a turning point my emotional maturity. After reading this, i started to see the differences in my own life in comparison with the child's life in the book. If everyone was to read this book, knowing that these unfortunate things happened to a real person in real life, then I believe that society would be a better place. It may not happen right away, but maybe some event or some epiphany would connect the circuit and that someone would see the true nature of kindness from this child's perspective.

As previously stated, some event may be the cause (after reading the book) of the sudden realization of human nature. This event would contrast in such detail with how that person saw people before and after the realization. That being said, if a person in high school was to read this book, and this person was a bully or an instigator of violence, then this might open up the mind of this individual to think about how he is making the bullied or the submissive feel from their perspective. This might cause the bullying to stop in its tracks.

In conclusion, reading the book "A Child Called It" would be very beneficial for every person of every race of every social and economic background to read because I believe that it opens up a doorway into new and objective thinking. By reading this book, people would be able to experience what an abused child has gone through, it allows the reader to look at their own daily lives and make more of it knowing they had a blessed childhood, and it allows the reader to be more open toward less-privileged children.

Let's change the world with one read.