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Gracious
Evidence: " Mom gavwe us fortune cookies."

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Mother was a person who asserted authority.
Evidence "Mom always had ideas, and she always took command of all family matters.

Mother was a loving person.

Evidence: "I never could remember the color of her hair or eyes, but Mom was a woman who glowed with love for her children.

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Creative  and innovative
Evidence:" Mom creatively decorate the heated tanks with coloured gravel and coloured foil backs."

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Mother is a violent mother.

She said"You make my life a living hell" and "now its time to show you what hell is like".She then put the writer onto "a burning stove"
This tells us that the mother was so violent that she wanted to kill the author

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The writer was lying for the mother about about the scars and lashes on his body

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[Orlando]Mother wants Dave to lie for her pg.4

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[Orlando]Mother wants Dave to lie for her pg.4

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"Tell'em... tell 'em you ran into the door"

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I guess she thinks he is a bad boy as well :)

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Dave was loved by his parents
Evidence: "My two brothers and I were  blessed with the perfect parents. Our every whim was fulfilled with love and care"

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"santa only brings toys to good boys and girls ."

this shows mother is stingy

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Mother loved Dave and his siblings. "Mom asked that I be excused a half-hour early." This shows that his mother was willing to risk school hours just so that they can spend time together as a family.

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brutal
She hits Dave in the face and he topples to the floor.

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Mother was starving the writer.

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"Mother old me that she red an article about a mother who had her son lie on top of a hot stove"
"You have made my life a living hell; she sneered"

Character trait : threatening.
Reason: Mom was already sick and tired of caring for dave pelzer as his mom and already hates Dave Pelzer. Now she is threatening Dave with life threatheing actions like burning his skin on top of a hot stove and dehumanising him.

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stubborn

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Violent
Evidence: "Mother stabbed him in the stomach and left a scar on his stomach".

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The writer's mother said that she was sick, but she painted the steps that led to the garage hastily, then she collapsed on the couch. She wanted to surprise her husband.

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"My long-sleeved shirt has more holes than Swiss cheese.Its's the same shirt I've worn for about two years.Mother has me wear it every day as her way to humiliate me.My pants are just as bad, and my shoes have holes in the toes. I can wiggle my big toe out of one of them."

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Caring and loving.
Evidence: "I remember the tortoise best because Mom let me pick a name for it"

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"Mother has me wear it every day as her way to humiliate me."

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(pg4) Sadistic

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"Her greatest asset was her determination. Mom always had ideas, and she always took command of all family matters."

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mother was a very loving mother as in pg 5 the author said that mother glowed with love for her children and had determination

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mom was fun
one october night, when the moon was in full view, mom hurried us out of our house to gaze at the great pumpkin in the sky

dave pelzer was excited
as christmas day came, my brothers and I became more excited

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"She still has a hangover from last night's stupor."

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This is evident in "Soon he closes his notepad and... I can feel my stomach coil.I want to go to the bathroom and throw up."
This shows that David was timid as he was easily intimidated by a police officer writing down information about him when he overheard the principal giving information about him, he also thought of the worse and thought he was going to jail for stealing food from his peers and never thought that his mother's abusive ways was the reason why the police officer came .

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(Zhan Wei and Joshua pg 17)Dave's mother lies to get out of trouble

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(Zhan Wei and Joshua pg 17)Dave's mother lies to get out of trouble

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Evidence:
"When she told the doctor about my fall from the top bunk bed, I could tell by the look she gave me that he knew my injury was no accident. Again, I was too afraid to speak up. At home, Mother made up an even more dramatic story for Father. In the new version, Mother included her efforts to catch me before I hit the floor. As I sat in Mother's lap, listening to her lie to Father, I knew my mom was sick."

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David Peter Character Trait No.1: Gullible

Evidence: "I dip my hands back into the scalding rise water. It's too late. She catches me with my hands out of the water."

Reason: Even though he knew the consequences of stopping work for a moment in the process to washing dishes, he was foolish enough to take his hands out of the rinse water for a few moments.

David Peter Character Trait No. 2: Sensible

Evidence: "Mother hits me in the face and I topple to the floor. I know better than to stand there and take the hit. I learned the hard way that she takes that as an act of defiance, which defines more hits or, worst of all no food."

Reason: He avoided the alternative to stand there and be defiant which means that he would receive no form of nourishment and more physical injuries inflicted on him. This also signifies that he isn't that gullible.

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"My mother, Catherine Roevra, was a woman of... but Mom was a woman who glowed with love for her children."

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Mother was unfair towards the writer.

when she loses her belongings, she not only forced her child to find it for her.

This can be seen in the following quotes. "Searches continued for months...only one singled out..."

We can also tell that she was a very violent woman.
This can be seen throught the following,"Forgot what i was looking for...I timidly asked...mother smacked me i the face. Blood gushed ...nose. Mother snatched a napkin from her table, tore a piece and rammed it up my nose."

This shows that she was a very violent and, at times, sadistic woman in addition to being grossly unfair.

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Mother used to be responsible
Evidence:
''When it came to housekeeping, Mom was an absolute clean fiend. After feeding my two brothers, Ronald and Stan, and I, breakfast, she would dust, disinfect, scour and vacuum everything. no room in our house was left untouched.''

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Mother's character is biased.
"whenever the other kids came to our  home, she treated them like kings"

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(pg4) drunkard

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Stubborn
Evidence:'I have to call her, David,' he says gently.
'No!' I command.Send me back to school. Don't you get it? She mustn't find out I told!'

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Dave was a loving child. He loved his parents. Stated in "flushed with pride to find Mom holding me." "I never felt as safe and as warm as that moment in time,"

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David is smart
Evidence:
"I knew that my brother Ron would be coming home from his scouts meeting, and I knew Mother acted this bizarre when anyone else is at home.In order to survive, I had to buy time."and "to keep mother off balance, I began to ask whining questions. This infuriated her even more, and mother rained blows around my head and chest" and "finally i heard the door fly open. It was Ron"

Reasons: this shows that he his smart as he knows that by distracting the mother, although he gets beaten up, she would not notice that Ron would come back and see what she is doing to the writer.

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Dave is very resilient. On page 4, it says,"Mother can beat me all she want, but i haven't let her take away my will to survive." This indicates that Dave has a strong spirit of determination. In page 4 from this part of this text, it states that mother beats Dave up, which means that mother is very brutal towards Dave.

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"Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive