Pull Your Way Forward: Push ny Sapphire

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Tragedies happen every day and most people don’t know about it. Many serious issues are going on and the world is close to oblivious to it. Why would we allow something so traumatic happen to people who are people like us? It seems inhumane. The novel Push by Sapphire is a fictional story about a young girl named Precious who is raped and sexually abused in her home. As the story progresses, Precious ends up going to school and begins to rebuild a life that she wants and deserves. I strongly believe that this novel needs to be read by young readers because it creates a sense of what reality is really like for people, it holds so much information that can lead to preventing horrible happenings such as the ones in this book, and for young readers it prepares them for perseverance in real world situations.
Sapphire does an unbelievable job at making this story authentic. She makes sure that there is just enough detail to get the point through but not too much that the reader loses interest. By doing this, she is able to put an image in a reader’s mind of a way to prevent situations that Precious is put through in Push. I definitely agree with the way that Sapphire wrote this and the way she incorporated her opinions subtly into the theme of the book. They way that she puts Precious through school even after being raped by her father forms hope for the character. This, for me, made me think of what could happen if Precious graduated school and got a job and what her life would look like. I think that this kind of thinking while reading a book can really be used to solve real world problems that are going on right now.
Life for people can be very nasty and harsh sometimes and I think that the human race doesn’t like to...

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...ly set up and isn’t always going to go smoothly. Reading Push has really opened my eyes on how to look into the future to be prepared for the real world and I would encourage my peers to read it as well.
Reading the novel Push has really given me new insight on how other people’s lives may be and how others can really make a difference. The fictional book creates a sense of what reality is really like for people, it holds so much information that can lead to preventing horrible happenings such as the ones in this book, and for young readers it prepares them for perseverance in real world situations. I strongly urge that others read this book and that it stays on the Pre-AP list and I would tell the reader to have a very open mind while reading because it seems odd at first to read something so horrible but it really pays off in the end if you give it a chance.

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