'The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain,' says Precious. Wicher and his teaching methods? Is he merely a coward or is he trying his best?Ģ. Is this an understandable or forgivable attitude? How would you describe Mr. Precious's principal in effect tells her teacher to give up on her, saying, 'Focus on the ones who can learn'. What does this story tell us about the inadequacy of ordinary schools to deal with students' problems and with their resulting learning handicaps? 'I got A in English and never say nuffin', do nuffin'', Precious says. Next Section Glossary Previous Section Push (Precious) Summary How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'Push (Precious) Characters'. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Precious is so inspired by her newfound support system that she writes poetry for her class, and they absolutely love it.

Rain easily evokes Precious's ability to read, thrusting Precious into the world of poetry and the written word. Finally, someone who will treat Precious like a human, and unsurprisingly, Ms. RainĪ friendly teacher at the alternative school who doesn't mistreat Precious. In the end, Carl's rape has fatal consequences, because Precious will likely die from the HIV that her own father passed on to her. By age 12, Precious is pregnant with Carl's baby. When she is still just a young child, he starts raping Precious. This child rapist is so disturbed that when he has a baby with his wife, he fixates on her. She even calls her first grandchild, 'The Little Mongo' because the child is born with Down Syndrome (because it is an incestuous pregnancy from her father's rape). Jealous that her husband, Carl, would rather have sex with their daughter than herself, Mary takes her resent out on Precious, physically beating her and humiliating her.

At school, she is misunderstood, and her social paralysis and reading issues (along with her second pregnancy) lead to her expulsion from school, but she decides to find another way to attain her education. She is also a mother, raising her two children (sibling children, in fact, because the babies' father is Precious's father too, who rapes her often throughout her entire childhood). Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪn unfortunate girl who finally finds her voice as a powerful poet.

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