As I read this part of the book, I read about the struggles for David to get food. Living in his own home and trying to work hard to get food at only 6 years old. I don't know how a mother could be so cruel. This part of the book reminds me of the Holocaust. All the children that suffered in there working to get a fraction of bread and not even half a bowl of soup. That's David. He tries his best to be a 'good boy' so that his mother could at least give him left overs, he tries really hard to be a good boy but this starving has lead him to steal food at school.

"On weekends, to punish me for my thefts, Mother refused to feed me. By Sunday night, my mouth would water as I began to plot new, foolproof ways to steal food without getting caught."