One example of a dynamic character in "A Child Called It" is Dave Pelzer's mother, Catherine. In the beginning of the story, she is happily married, and treats all of her children equally, and does not beat David at all. However, once Dave turns four years old, his mother became an alcoholic and she beats Dave regularly. She can be charming and sweet when she wants to be, but if something gets her mad, or she just decides that she doesn't want to be nice, she is a very vicious woman. She also convinces the school at one point that she had not beaten Dave at all, and it was something else. Catherine's son, however, is a static character in the memoir, "A Child Called It". He is a static character because he remains in the same fighting attitude the whole story, and does not give up the whole time, even through the roughest periods. His main goal was to not let his mom win, and was determined to make it through the hard times his mother was putting him through. The only time in this story that he would be a dynamic character, is in the beginning, before he turned four years old, when he has a happy family and is a different version of the "Brady Bunch". Dave is also bullied by the students that attend his school, but he does not see this as bad as what he gets at home, but still