What Next You Bastard My Early Years
Publisher: WNYB
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hervey Bay, Qld, Australia
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Hall, Ken, 1940; Chronically ill Child; Illiterate persons
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: 1. My Early Years
The Hall Family was heading home from their Grandparent's place at Sackville Street, Greenslopes. My mother Myrtle was rying Ron, George and Mervyn were walking beside Mum. I was four years old but was too sick and weak to walk so I was in the pram with my Father who was in control of the pram. My pram was speeding up, my father had let go of the pram!
I could hear my Mother yelling behind me, "Stop the pram!" My father was too busy laughing. The footpath was coming up fast, the pram hit the concrete gutter, bucked and rolled over, then shot me out of the pram. Mum was there first. Dad was splitting his sices laughing. I did not utter a word. Luckily I was not injured.
Description: I can recall back to when I was four years old.
I was a very sickly child spending a lot of my childhood in and out of hospital. At the age of eight I died on the operating table andiiy short term memory was taken from me, so from then on I could not learn anymore so I became illiterate.
My father was a very cruel, abusive and terrifying person.
My mother was a loving and caring person but had to endure my fathers verbal and physical abuse.
I was allowed to go exploring around our area and to ride my push bike for many miles. I was not told you cannot do any of these things due to my ill health.
My father .won the golden casket and he moved out of home. After he left home our family life was a wonderful place to be and we had plenty of food to eat now.
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