Her new environment provides her the stability and support to continue school. Rain, who uses all of her resources to get Precious into a halfway house with childcare. Homeless and alone, she first passes a night at the armory, then turns to Ms. When Precious returns home with Abdul, her enraged mother chases her out of the house. The confession leads to Precious' mother having her welfare taken away. While in the hospital giving birth to her son Abdul Jamal Louis Jones, Precious tells a social worker that her first child is living with her grandmother. Precious is particularly moved by The Color Purple. The works of classic African American writers such as Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and Langston Hughes are inspirational for the students. By the time the novel ends, the women have created an anthology of autobiographical stories called 'LIFE STORIES – Our Class Book' appended to the book. Rain reads their entries and provides feedback and advice. She believes that the only way to learn to write is to write every day. Rain ignites a passion in her students for literature and writing. They start off by learning the basics of phonics and vocabulary building. Rain's class is a pre- GED class for young women who are below an eighth-grade level in reading and writing and therefore are unprepared for high school-level courses. All of the girls come from troubled backgrounds.

Blu Rain, and fellow students Rhonda, Jermaine, Rita, Jo Ann, and Consuelo. Precious enrolls in the school despite her mother's insistence that she apply for welfare. Precious is furious, but the counselor later visits her home and convinces her to enter an alternative school, located in the Hotel Theresa, called Higher Education Alternative Each One Teach One.

When her school discovers the pregnancy, it is decided that she should attend an alternative school.

Precious is a few months pregnant with her second child, the product of her father raping her he is also the father of her first child (who has Down syndrome). Thirteen years after its release in 1996, the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards.Ĭlaireece Precious Jones is an obese, illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem with her abusive mother Mary. Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire.

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