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Summary: So real, disturbing, sad BUT VERY VERY Inspiring!
Review: PUSH is such an easy read but so hard to get through without showing some human emotions. I found myself crying after every few pages while Precious described the most horrific life that any young girl (or boy) could go through.Being sexually and physically abused by both her BIOLOGICAL mother & father, Precious still finds courage to PUSH and fight for her life. She wants to be a smart mother, not like the one she was given who threw her life down the drain. 16 years old, Precious has already given birth to 2 children from her own father. A baby girl (Mongo) at 12 years old and a baby boy (Abdul) at 16. Inflicted with the HIV virus, giver to her by her father, Precious still maintains a love for learning and wanting to BE SOMEONE. She doesnt let anyone or any system bring her down and categorize her into a sub-human culture. Precious Jones is someone BEAUTIFUL and she lets everyone see that in the ways she gets through the trials and tribulations in her young life. It would be nice for this book to become a movie, but I think this would be a hard thing for many of us to see, nontheless, read.
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Summary: Brutally Powerful, Defiant, Memorable.
Review: _Push_ is wonderful! This is our group's conclusion after reading and discussing the book for a class assignment. This is an emotional and touching book that tells of the struggles and successes of a 17-year-old girl, from Harlem, named Claireece Precious Jones. Precious was illiterate, she was raised in the ghetto. She had a father who raped and fathered both her children, and she had a mother who severely beat and also sexually abused her. Precious grew up in an environment of loneliness, pain, and shame. The story tells how Precious fought the battle of being illiterate by pushing herself to learn how to read and write with the help of a courageous and determined teacher. The novel offers a powerful insight into what literacy can do for a person, namely Precious. This book has the power to influence your emotions. The introductory paragraph is enough to describe the complications and hardships of Precious' life. We feel anger towards her biological father, someone who has continuously abused her. If anger is what we feel because of her father's behavior, then outrage is what we feel towards her mother for allowing Precious' father to molest Precious. However, sadness is what we experience the most during and after reading _Push_. It is sad to learn about Precious' life, to know how much pain she suffered, to actually feel her loneliness through her thoughts and verbal expression. One of the high points of the book is sharing in the hope Precious felt when she met her teacher, Ms. Rain. Ms. Rain helped Precious to read and write. She gave Precious more than just literacy. In addition to giving her the ability to read and write, Ms. Rain also gave Precious the ability to think and to analyze her life. Precious showed her independence when she tried to make it on her own and in her determination to provide a better life for herself and her children. She is finally willing to open up herself and her feelings through the creative poems she has written in class. Precious could not have done all this without the love and care she received from her teacher and her friends at the new school. The moments of love and warmth conveys in the novel touches the reader's heart. Even though _Push_ is a fictional novel, it sounds like a true-life story. It deals with global social issues that are reported continuously through the media, such as poverty, obesity, illiteracy, incest, and child abuse. This is the kind of book that everyone should read for a reality check.
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Summary: Excellent Novel
Review: This book was so sad!! I was really feeling sorry for the main character and wishing i could help her. Its different from all the other books i've read but it keep my attention till i was finished.
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Summary: Haunting
Review: Push is a haunting story of an inner city teenager, forced to endure sexual, psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her so called "parents" and her climb out of ignorance. She becomes a virtual slave to her overweight, slovenly mother and a sexual toy for her depraved step father. Precious attends school but is so far behind in her education, she literally becomes "invisible" as she sits in the classroom without moving from her seat all day. The author's use of slang and the crude spelling of words and sentence structure allowed me the change to identify with the level of intelligence Precious had. The book held my attention as I read page after page of her journey. It was really marvelous to see the progress Precious makes thru her journal writing she actually become "visible". Definately worth the read.
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Summary: Couldn't Put It Down!!
Review: Push is such a gripping novel that I hardly have words to describe it. This novel brought out many emotions in me-anger, sadness, laughter, disgust, heartache. I didn't know if I could finish this novel, it was emotionally hard for me to read but I had to know what happens to Precious. As I was reading, all I could think of was how many young children are in the same or even worse of a situation that Precious was in? The vulgar language hits you in the face but is necessary to tell this story. Sometimes the vulgarity will make you laugh, most of the time it will make you want to cry. Bittersweet ending but worth the read ten times over. Excellent book.
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Summary: The ultimate
Review: One of the most disturbing books I've yet to come across, this novel is also heartwarming and ultimately brilliant! A word of warning--you will find yourself crying in places, and you'll also find youself getting incredibly angry, but then, that's what a good writer can do to us. Reminiscent of other novels that have great power like Jackson McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" or Pelzer's "A Child Called It," this stellar performance by Sapphire will take it's place among the greats. Highly recommend, though not for the faint-of-heart.
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Summary: PUSH
Review: This author wants the reader to be precious and when this author finishes the reader will become precious. The reader will feel her tears and her pain. The reader will feel when precious is raped and incested against. And at the end of all these feelings you will feel better about yourself and precious. You see because the reader will realize that my enough may not be your enough and your enough may not be my enough. But thank God he blessed all of us to know when enough is enough. Then we as a woman,mother,sister or child will stand up and do whatever is necessary to succeed. To change what can be changed. Life is change, Change is life. Precoius did the best OF HER ABILITY to change her lifeand that of her son Abdul.
I'm feeling Sapphire with this one and if you the reader are feeling what I am saying Holla Back topazzz6@aol.com
P.S. Blue Rain when you write down your feelings oh how much better you feel.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: this story might not be the best for everyone for the mature contents. In my opinion it is well written and makes a person want to get involved with the main character, Precious. As soon as i started this book, i couldnt stop reading it. Although i felt deply disturbed about what was going on, i had to keep telling myself that it was fiction. Precious is repeatedly raped and molested from the time that she was born. This abuse is Perpetrated by both her parents. She does not go to school normaly until the age of 15 after meeting Ms. Rain. The way this story is written makes it impossible to stop reading it, which is why i recomend it.
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Summary: Outstanding Novel
Review: "Push" by Sapphire is a great book. The author kept my interested and Precious (the main character) kept me interested also. I rated the book with 5 stars because it had a great beginning, middle, and end. Unlike some books i've read. It dosent start off boring or get "flat" in the middle and end. Sapphire really captures the read in this book and gives them a sense on how people deal with a not so good situation in the ghetto of New York. Another reason why I liked this book was because it wasnt "sugar-coated" or made the truth sound any better than it was. This is why I gave this book 5 stars.
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Summary: A must read
Review: With so many books out there about child abuse, psychotic parents, and the misfortunes of the "victims" it's hard to know what to read. But there are three that I've come across lately that are superb: A Child Called It, Bark of the Dogwood, and this one--Push. While all three are different (there's sequal to "Child" and "Dogwood" is at times even funny) they all share the same theme of abuse, neglect, and dysfunction. "Push" is by far one of the more graphic novels I've read, and it isn't for the faint of heart. That said, I'd also recommend "Bark of the Dogwood" and "A Child called It."
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