![]() 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |