Child Abuse and How it Applies to Gal by Ruthie Bolton and Lucky by Alice Sebold.

Child abuse is a disgrace to the American Society. It is an act that accomplishes nothing but bad things. It shows how low some people are in our society that they would beat their own children or other people's children. According to the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information there are millions of children that are abused every year (1). The perpetrators that commit these crimes against children are parents, siblings, babysitters, teachers, or other people that temporarily take care of children.
In the memoir Gal by Ruthie Bolton, Ruthie was physically abused by…