Rain did not expect much from her and saw her as dumb and treated her as such. There was high expectations of Precious:Įveryone that Precious came in contact with prior to Ms. “What’s that word?” I say “Ate.” She say, “Good! Almost! That word is “at.”…I want to cry. Precious received positive reinforcement: But for now, I want you to try, push yourself Precious, go for it. Precious had someone who believed in her recognized her potential and was relentless about seeing her succeed: “I…the pages look alike to me.” I breave in deep, there I said it. Precious worked up the courage to voice her areas of need so that she could get help: A small step but this step helped her with subsequent giant future steps, leaps and bounds. Precious’ first step was to learn the alphabet and its correct order. The longest journey begin with a single step, as said by Ms. Precious took the necessary first step although it was small: I shake my head, can’t think of nuffin’ I’m staring at my shoes. “Everybody do something good”, Ms Rain say in soft voice. An’ for the first time in my life I sits down in the front row. But something like birds or light fly through my heart. I takes in air through my nose, a big breath, then I start to walk slow to the back. Everybody starring at me, God don’t let me cry.
She took a risk and conquered the fear and limits of her past experiences: School something…School gonna help me get out dis house. Precious found her ticket out and persevered: I try to turn away from her Mississippi self but she in the bed now pulling my chest and shoulders into her arms…I feel warm kindness from her I never feel from mama and I start to cry…I crying for me who no one never hold before.
Everyday I tell myself something gonna happen…I’m gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me - I’m gonna learn, catch up, be normal, change my seat to the front of the class. So I started thinking about what made this possible for Precious? What are some lessons that can be learned and applied? I recognized 15 factors that helped Precious overcome I hope this will inspire you to overcome your problems and inspire you to help others to do the same. However, when I read Push the second time I realized that I missed many of the hurdles and problems that Precious was able to overcome. After reading Push by Sapphire I felt like I wanted to go out and do something positive and uplifting because the novel was so intense.
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