Precious Based on the novel Push By Sapphire
Precious Based on the novel Push By Sapphire Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate, pregnant, sixteen-year-old high school freshman with HIV who has been living with abuse at the hands of her parents. She is an incest survivor from both parents, and also has a child from her father who impregnated her with the second. Though she is brought down by her parents and her welfare-state life, her weight, and the verbal abuse she receives every day from her peers, Precious has an innate desire to learn in this book she finds the way to do that. She is determined to get herself into a better situation for her unborn child and possibly for her other daughter ,who has Downs Syndrome and is in the care of her grandmother. After she is expelled from her school because she is pregnant, despite receiving praise form some of her teachers and getting good grades, Precious joins an alternative education program in order to bring her reading and writing skills up to par to be able to enter a...