Feast Days. It is the day when Christ ians believe of Jesus w as born. it is celebrat ed generally on December 25.
As Christ mas Day cam e nearer, my brot hers and I becam e m ore and more excit ed. ACCI: 18
5. Cultural Aspect
The cult ural aspect is broken down into t hree: m ent al fact s, social fact s, and physical fact s. M ent al fact s consist of norms, w ay of life, and
value-syst em . Social fact s include cust om and t radit ion. Physical fact s such as fashion, art hefact , and lit erat ure.
View ed from ment al fact s, t he w rit er breaks it into three. First , t he societ y believed t hat people had t o mind t heir own bussiness. They t ook
care of t heir own house and other people had not a right t o int erfere. At t hat t im e, what in the house should be closed. The m em bers of t he
family w ould not t ell what happened in the house or w hat problem they had faced.
“ I have no idea w hat happened back then. That ’ s not m y affair. What happens in someone’s house stays in t heir
house. It’ s no one else’s business. I see no need t o open up Pandora’s box.” AM ND: 129
The second, it is st at ed t hat harshness in children at that tim e w as not cat egorized as an abuse but it w as an act t o discipline t hem .
Everyone might see t he harshness but they could not do anyt hing. It w as because t here w eren’t a great Penal Codes t o prot ect kids.
“ Anyw ay, anybody could see what she w as doing. Back t hen t here w as not hing w e could have done, or w er e
allowed to do. Back then it w as considered discipline, parent al right s, but w e had t o do som et hing. Any one of us
could see w hat w as going on. It ’s som et hing you don’t forget . Ever.” AM ND: 233
The t hird, the societ y had also seen Fost er Child blindly. They looked down to fost er children for not having parent s.
Ot her t im es I’d happily st at e, “ I’m a fost er child” I w as proud to be a m em ber of my new family. I began t o repeat
t his saying unt il one day one of t he older foster children pulled m e aside at school, w arning m e not t o tell anyone
“ w hat ” I w as because “ a lot of folks don’t like our kind.” TLB: 50
In social fact s, American used t o drink alcohol. People used to keep t heir problems wit hout sharing and solving them. They alw ays ran
away from t heir problem s by drinking alcohol and they didn’ t t ry t o solve t he problem s. Therefore, drinking alcohol is a cust om and
becom es t he habit of American societ y. Am erican t radition to celebrat e Holy Days is also reflect ed in t he
nbook A Child Called it . David’s fam ily used t o celebrat e Thanksgiving, Christ m as, and Hallow een.
That year Thanksgiving dinner w as a flop. In som e kind of gest ure of good faith, M ot her allow ed me t o eat at t he t able
w ith t he family ACCI: 87-88.
Physical fact appears in t he novel t hat is lit erat ure. David m ent ions in the t hird book A M an Named Dave t hat he w rot e A Child Called it and
The Lost Boy .
In the fall of 1992, while doing a series of fact checks for A Child Called “ It ” , AM ND: 229-230
6. Science and Technology Aspect
Twent iet h cent ury was a t im e t hat st art ed w ith horses, simple autom obiles, and freight er but ended with luxury sedans, cruise ships,
airlines and space shut tle. In addition, mass m edia, t elecom unicat ions and information t echnology m ade t he w orld’ s know ledge m ore widely
available t o people. It is shown in Pelzer’s t rilogy from what t he charact ers had and did in the st ory of A Child Called It , The Lost Boy and
A M an Named Dave .
