PUSH
Pushy by Sapphire is a novel spoken through the voice of Claireece Precious Jones dealing with her experiences in the two major classrooms, one being her family setting and the other her education experiences. The novel contains many graphic descriptions of many touchy subjects including sexual abuse, AIDS, welfare, illiteracy, domestic violence, and the educational system. Claireece, or by her own demands Precious lives in Harlem, NY around the early 1980s. She talks about her relationships with her mother and father. These experiences that were never positive scar her for the rest of the novel and her life. It all basically started about the age of two where her mother and father were having intercourse and he reached over towards Precious and started to sexually abuse her. Shortly after this incident her mother as well began to start the abuse. Her mothers and fathers abuse was just like a one night stand but in fact was repetitive along with the demands of h
"I got an A in English and never say nuffin, do nuffin. At this school setting she learns how to read and write and also makes for the first time in the book some friends. Shortly after Abduls birth Precious tells the truth to social services and lil mongo is then placed into a special home. " (p 39)These are people who are running our school isn't there something wrong with this. She was just pushed right through the system until intermediate school where she was thrown out because of her being pregnant. Lil mongo was taken care of by Precious's grandmother but her own mother was getting welfare for supposedly taking care of both the new born and Precious. Eventually, her mother comes to the house and tells her that her father had passed away and that he had HIV, which then was passed along to Precious via the sexually abuse. I am wondering how often this is an occurrence in today's educational system? Another question I have is why did Sapphire end the book this way I was just getting so involved? What happened to Precious? There were two particular lines that really struck me in the heart as my dreams of becoming a teacher are soon to be here. The novel is a very striking one, which at times was very hard to read due to the graphic nature of precious hardships including AIDS, welfare, illiteracy, domestic violence, the educational system and even some politics with the constant reference back to Farrakhan. My opinion, views and questions of the book. At the age of twelve Precious gave to birth to a baby girl on the kitchen floor. " (p 51) How is this possible and why is this? Also, at the same time Precious's principle saying "focus on the ones who can learn.
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