The novel Push by Sapphire is about a 16-year-old African American girl named Precious. The story is written in Precious' journal entries, detailing her struggles through life due to her physical, emotional, sexual abuse. Precious finds hope in an alternative school that teaches her to read and write.
Plot. In 1987, Claireece Precious Jones is an obese, illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem, New York, with her abusive mother Mary. Precious is a few ...
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Precious is a 16-year-old Black girl in 1987 Harlem who is kicked out of school because she is pregnant for the second time. She gave birth to her first child, ...
Precious ends up at an alternative school for the poorly behaved where she meets Ms. Rain who realizes that Precious can't really read or write, so she slows ...
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But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment ...
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Jul 19, 2023 · In 2011 Sapphire made a sequel called the Kid Which follows precious's son abdul as he deals with precious's death and gets thrown into a ...
Claireece "Precious" Jones: The main character of the novel who is dealing with a pregnancy which was a result of her father raping her. She is 16 years old and ...
May 3, 2024 · Her 1996 novel Push, for which she was best known, tells the harrowing story of Claireece Jones, called Precious, an obese, illiterate African ...
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This is the story of a very resilient young lady who gets raped by her father and has two children by him before the age of 16. Her mother is a terror to her, ...
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Jun 11, 1996 · Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who ...