What is the setting of The Lost Boy?

Question

In the book the Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer what is the setting?

Time.Place.Atmosphere.

Answer 1

Places: SETTING
Because David is a foster child there are many minor settings. However, the majority of the action occurs in common vicinity. This is in the outlying suburbs of San Francisco, California.
Daly City, CA - The story begins in David’s home with Mother in this small California suburb of San
Francisco; it is a middle class neighborhood.
Pizza Bar - This is where David ends up the first time he runs away.

Time: the 70s

LIST OF CHARACTERS
Major Characters
David Pelzer - David is the main character and narrator as well as author of this story. This memoir meets him at age nine and leaves him when he is an adult; it follows more precisely the years between age twelve and eightteen. He is shy and describes his outer appearance as that of a geek.
Mother, Catherine Roerva Pelzer - Catherine is David’s mother and most often referred to simply as “Mother.” She is a haggardly, putrid woman who is responsible for David’s torment.
Stephan Pelzer, Father - David’s father, he is the man who was David’s hero as a child. He undergoes a transformation into worn alcoholic. David spends much of his life looking up to then simply looking out for him.
Minor Characters
Mark - He is the man who works at the pizza bar. He offers to make David a pizza when he sees him steal a quarter left on a pool table for a game. With the best of intentions, he phones the police to tell them that David is there.
CONFLICT
In this story there are many minor conflicts normally with David as the protagonist and a minor character as the antagonist, e.g. John, the crazy doctor, the snobby lady at Duinsmoore. The main underlying conflict however is much larger, also most that of the forces of good vs. evil; it is as follows:
Protagonist - David who is playing the lost boy in search of what Mother never gave,
Antagonist - Mother. While she has brief, fleeting moments of kindness, she is essentially …….
Climax - It is difficult in a memoir type piece to determine the one true rise in action that will lead to ultimate resolution. This is a story of many little climaxes, e.g. when Mother is chasing……
The major climax, I would argue, is when Alice and Harold give David the key to their home. I would say it is the major climax because it resolves the major issue of this story, which is about a lost boy. Upon receiving the key the final detail that David needs to be resolved, is determined.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION - BIOGRAPHY
This is an entirely true story written by the author himself. David was rescued from the torment of his mother at age twelve and then lived in foster care until of legal age. When he turned eighteen he joined the U.S. Air force. During his years of service he played a pertinent role in Operation Just Cause in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. Ever since Dave has continued to lead an inspiring and amazing life for which has been recognized by
the last three Presidents of the United States: Regan, Bush, and Clinton. 1990 named him the CaliforniaVolunteer of the year. In 1993 Dave was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans. In 1994, hebecame the only American to be named one of Outstanding Young Persons of the World. In 1996 he was honored at the Olympic Games in Atlanta by being selected to carry the Centennial torch.

Answer 2

daly city, california it was also taking place on a brisk evening at some pizzeria, and then the police station, and back to the dreaded "mother's" house