Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Week 9 push

I am going to read Precious Push (Sapphire). This book is about a girl name Claireece  Precious Jones who was a high school student and was poor, she was raped by her father and was fat and unloved. She was pregnant with her father's child for the second time. She can't read or write, and her schoolmates tease her for being fat. When she's not getting raped and impregnated by her father she’s getting sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her mother. She even gets pushed around by strangers on the street. Even though Precious has a rough life she takes it on day by day with a smile on her faces and love and her heart. I found myself rooting for Precious, caring for her, right away. That's partly because even though Precious guards herself by shutting down whenever her mother is around, we can always see what's crackling beneath the girl's surface. What amazed me was how her mother could choose a man’s love over her own daughters and especially sense that was her only child. Her mother even talked about precious baby a BABY really what did she every do she didn’t ask to be and the world. I loved how even though she wasn’t as educated she still pushed herself and when to an alternative school. The teacher was very caring and so was the student I was amazed at how much everyone wanted to help her and cared for especially the teacher because you don’t usually see that. What made me cry was the end when her mom tried to embrace as a daughter and then tell her that they had AIDS that really pissed me off. Overall I think this book is going to be very interesting.  

1 comment:

  1. I'll be interested to hear your comparisons between the movie and the novel. I think you're going to like the book much better.

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