PUSH

"Push" by Sapphire

"Push" by Sapphire

Describe your reactions to this book. How did you seem reading this story?

Push, by Sapphire was an painful, painful reading experience. Claireece “Precious” Jones is an overweight, illiterate black sixteen year old girl who is pregnant with her second child. She consigned her first at twelve and her father is the father of both of her children. Her mother is an abusive, jealous, reclusive figure who offers Precious neither protection neither love and she abuses Precious verbally, sexually and physically. This first novel is by the poet and presentation artist, Sapphire. Sapphire spent time teaching literacy in Harlem, which makes this article with all of its broken individual features all the more heartbreaking. Through the intervention of her school's primary, Precious is sent to attend a literacy program and meetings a educator who finally assists Precious to discover to read and to understand that she has worth and a future. When Precious ed first goes to the alternative school, she's given a test to determine if she should be in the G.E.D. class, which needs reading at the eighth grade level. She does not qualify (Hilarski, 2008).

Describe the strengths you see in Precious

ithout describing all of the details, many of which are gruesome, of Precious life as she describes it in her own words in this book, the first-person narration which Sapphire pens to perfection is gripping. Iread this publication in two days, even though I often literally set the ok asidefor awhile, until I could choose it up again. The main feature about this novel which surprised and delighted me was that Sapphire uses a literary technique that I have not glimpsed before; as Precious begins school and becomes more and more literate, so too is the text more and more literate over the course of the book. For instance, at the starting of the book, I found it difficult to read the phrases, because couple of of them are spelled correctly, so the reading is slow. Gradually, more and more words are spelled correctly, as Precious attends an Alternative school, and thanks to an amazing teacher, named Blue Rain, she not only begins to read, but also to compose as she chronicles her life in a journal which Ms. Rain has allotted to the class. This class consists of other girls who are outcasts in society, and they gradually become Precious' family (Harmon, 2003).

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