Week 2

I thought that the end of the book Push was not very good and lacking some important information.  The end of the book kind of just left you on a cliffhanger and didn’t really explain much.  Basically Precious was doing better in school, and coming to appreciate her life more than she use to.  That’s good for her and all but honestly I wanted her to do something about her parents abusing her after all these years.  I wanted her to go to the police and tell them what has been happening.  I wanted to see Precious either succeed greatly, or fail miserably.  Either of those things would have been better than how it ended. 

When we talked about the end of the book in class we talked about the sequel book about her kid.  Honestly who gives a shit about her kid, the book was about Precious and Sapphire doesn’t think it’s necessary to even include information about Precious in the next book.  Sapphire should’ve at least mentioned a tidbit in the end of Push telling the reader, or even hinting to the reader what happens to Precious later in life. 

Overall I though Push was a pretty decent book.  Could’ve done a lot better without Precious’s dialogue but that’s beside the point.  We kind of saw at the end of the book that Precious’s mom realized what she did and has been doing is wrong and that she needs to improve as a mother.  I think Precious realized her mom was trying too, so they are on a lot better terms now.  What I think happens to Precious is that she gets along with her mom now and lets her mom take care of her kids while she pursues her education.  Maybe eventually Precious goes on to get a decent job, who knows, that is just my personal opinion.