Book Review : The Book Analysis Of Push By Sapphire

Alister McGrath, from the very beginning of this book, plainly states what the dangerous idea is all about. “The dangerous new idea, firmly embodied at the heart of the Protestant

His name within itself shows he is precious. Due to the affair, Addie believes Jewel was conceived in violence leaving him to be her only salvation. The violence is shown through Jewel in the treatment of his horse. He also displays salvation as he saved Addie's body twice, from the river and from the burning barn. The way Jewel was born and the way Addie felt about him showed after her death in both a positive and negative way.

Throughout the movie Precious, there are several times when the audience witnesses trauma and its effect on Precious’ life. These traumatizing events include sexual abuse, verbal abuse, physical abuse, and emotional abuse. When people go through these events, their mind will find ways to cope with their situation. These coping mechanisms are depersonalization, derealization, detachment, and dissociation.

Claireece who identify herself as Precious is a 16-year-old African American female who is the only child of her parents. Precious was raised in a dysfunctional family that is built on violence, aggression and abuse. Precious suffers from emotional, psychological, sexual and physical abuse from her family and is forced to take the parental responsibilities at home. Precious was sexually molested by her father at age three (3) as a result of incest, she conceived two children and

John “Crash” Coogan is the typical jock; he lives in Pennsylvania and is starting his second year of middle school as a 7th grader. I thought the main theme of the book is don’t judge a book by its cover. At least what most of us have in mind as a jock? Crash had always picked on his neighbor Penn Webb because of his choices and his lifestyle until later he realized something about Penn that he was his meant- to- be best friend. Crash has a wonderful life, until life deals him a hand that he could not have expected. When Crash 's grandfather unexpectedly has a stroke, Crash instinctively steps back and re-evaluates his life without even realizing he 's doing it. Suddenly, his cool friend, Mike doesn’t seem so cool anymore. Things that

Learning to read contributed to Precious being comfortable in her own skin, it gave her self confidence and “so much strength.” While attending Each One Teach One, Precious met Jermaine and Rita. When Precious is diagnosed with HIV, Rita encourages her to “fight back” and join an HIV community. Jermaine also helps Precious deal with what is going on by suggesting that she attends an incest survivor

The 2009 film “Precious”, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, tells the tragic story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones. She is overweight, illiterate and is now pregnant with her second child. Her life at home is a complete nightmare; her mother, Mary, verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her daily. Her father, Carl, molested her on multiple occasions and impregnated her twice then disappeared. Precious was kicked out of public school and took an offer to attend an alternative school where she meets her inspirational teacher Miss Blu Rain. Precious begins to believe in herself and prepare herself for her future. She becomes engaged in class and learns how to read and write; she was called stupid and dummy all her life and

lose friends from her old school due to her being too busy working toward her goals (Malcolm,

Claireece “Precious” Jones has been abused by the Department of Education. An evident example of this is when Precious speaks of her education history in the beginning of the novel: “I had got left back in the second grade, when I was seven, ‘cause I couldn’t read […] I should be in the eleventh grade, getting ready to go into the twelf’ grade so I can be gone ‘n graduate. But I’m not. I’m in the ninfe grade.

Physical abuse plays a huge role in this film. I am so thankful that sexual abuse has never played a role in my life. The toll it took on this young girl is so heartbreaking. I could not bear having to be afraid to come home every day wondering if my father is there waiting to hurt me. A father is someone who every little girl and young lady should be excited to see when coming home. With everything she has had to experience because of that disgusting man, she also learns that she has caught aids from him. I’m not sure what's worse, the fact that precious is a 16-year-old young girl who is sexually abused by her father and winds up with AIDS and pregnant, or the fact that for the rest of life, she will have to keep such a secret from her daughter.

Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.

The core pages in the Big Book structure their information in a step by step fashion. It begins with Bill’s Story. The story of how Bill started his own journey through alcoholism and became a founding member of A.A. The following chapters target the alcoholic in different areas of their life. Chapter two and three talk about how, through science, spirituality, and personal experience, the founding authors discovered the solution to their alcoholic illness and the ways they could beat it. Chapter four targets the alcoholic who may shy away from the religious or spiritual talk about “God” and how the program handles the idea of God or a “higher power” as those in the group see it. Chapter five and six are the nuts

The motion picture ‘Precious’ gives us a powerful experience, mainly because the story line has a thin hopefulness in the dark-clouded life of Precious, Precious is resilient, even though her tragic life influences her personality greatly.

never go to school. All of this was taken away from her at such a young age, when she

She is learning to be out on her own for the first time in her life. Because she is away at school she does not have the guidance that her parents once gave her. She has to make decisions about her life and life choices. So far she has not had much success in making these choices. She almost decided to quit school and move in with her boyfriend. This poor planning has left her very behind in school making her have to attend for an extra year in order to graduate. She also decided that it was all right to smoke marijuana. This led to problems with the law, which is not good considering that she is a criminal justice major. Next year she will be moving into an apartment and will have to work in order to support herself. This is another step toward autonomy from her parents.