Jared Ramos 806                                       Push                                                                 ELA

            As I notice why Precious Jones, is always trying to escape her home, its because of the environment that she is exposed to and living in. her environment is her father would go as far as getting his own child pregnant, and her mother beats her senseless, "till I cant feel no more." But all she wants is a normal life, "like them white girls that don’t have there father getting them pregnant." Reading this book makes me feel that the author is trying to express the main idea, that there is always some kind of happiness as you progress through life but the author is expressing the main idea by using race and how Precious wanted to live a normal life. She wanted to live a normal life with someone who can care for her and care about her and that is why she is always trying to escape her living environment.

            Precious, has gone through many traumatizing things that she has to live with forever, and a lot of these problems can not be solved. The main problem that I see is, what had occurred with her father. What happened was that her father raped her and then he finds out that she is pregnant and he abandons her. The mother thinks that "she stole her husband," made him leave her so she begins with the beatings. When her babe comes out something wrong had occurred the babe had down syndrome, and as the doctor explains " because of the beatings to the stomach the baby's face had been smashed in."

All she wanted was a normal life, to be able to have happy child hood memories. But as I read this in disgust and sadness, I felt that she had no way of having a future with a little happiness I just couldn't see that as I read those parts. This is important because it made me see that there are worse things that are happening to kids everywhere and these children have to live with this memory with a rewind button replaying that experience, and it is just so messed up that there are people so disgusting that they could do that to a little girl.  

            Although Precious, has gone through a lot she wants the best for her and her child she wants to be educated unlike her family, she wants that one person who would help her in such a rough time and care for her. She finds this one person at her school the one person she needed to get her through her times and this person was Ms Rain, she was the nicest to her she made precious feel good and smart about herself, and the biggest thing was that she cared for her like she was her own child. What this says to me is that there is always something bright when least expected meaning that there is always something good waiting for you or a better opportunity lurking right around the corner. This matters because, reading this book is just so depressing and to know that there are children that are being abused like she had been just makes me sick to read and hear stuff like this and its very disturbing. And also not being able to do anything at such a young age to fight back and tell anyone because the person potentially threatened them and it was just a traumatizing thing for them.