Revised "Push" Reading Response

In the book Push by Sapphire, Precious has a very hard life. Precious is a obese girl, pregnant with her second child by her father,is not smart enough for her grade, and gets abused at home by her mother. She hates life. Through out the book she learns very important lessons. She learns to stand up for herself, to do what she loves, and to live her own life. The main theme in the book is taking charge of your life leads to many positive things.

One example that you have to take charge of your life is Precious gets sexually abused, physically abused, and pushed around at the beginning of the book. She's been told and treated she's worthless countless of times,so of course she believes it. She is 16 but in the 8th grade. She finally decides to start to go to a school where she first takes a pre-GED class then will later on take GED class. She meets people who change her life such as her teacher, Ms.Rain, and her friends.She learns to read and write, and starts to write poetry. She learns to have a real relationship with someone.Taking charge of your life leads to many good things.

Taking charge of your life leads to good things, so when Precious finally leaves her house and abusive mother things start to go upward. She puts the last 16 years of her life behind her. The only reason her mother let her be in the house, was because her mother got money from welfare because of Precious and her kids and she goes to live in a half-way house. When she decided to take charge and move out and leave all the bad things behind so many new options opened up for her. 

Taking charge of life leads to something good. Precious had a horrible life and with one decision everything turned around. Precious shows us how even when the cards you got handed in life aren't good, you can take new cards, and make your life better.