Push

Plot
Precious, a16 years old pregnant teenager suffering sexual and physical abuse by her mother and father. Expelled from high school and attended a alternative school to get her GED. Started to know now new people and gets self-confident with the help of her classmates.

Raising action

• Precious get suspended/expelled for being pregnant again
• Goes to an alternative school called Each One Teach One
• Try to get her GED
• Starts to get self-confident and makes new friends
• Gave birth her second child called Abdul.

raising action

• Precious leave home and goes with Abdul to a half-house
• Finds out her father dies
• Got AIDS from her father 
• Starts to forgive and let all the hate she had in the past

Climax

“How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me.”
-Sapphire, Push

Resolution
Precious knows what to do with herself. Herself conflict no longer exists and she is moving on so that she can get herself a job with her education.

FEMINIST CRITICISM

Precious is being put down in the novel and at the end she stands up for herself.

Literary techniques

• Metaphor
• "They ain't nice men. They pigs."pg.13
• Foreshadow
• "I wake up remembering the last time I pushed"pg.16

“Is life a hammer to beat me down?”

LOVE-SEXUALITY:
In the novel the theme of love specially sexuality can emphasize how Precious has been sexually abused by her father, not only her father but also her mother.

SUFFERING/ADVERSITY-ABUSE
Suffering is the main theme in this book because the life of Precious is basically based on how she suffers and how she lives being abused sexually, mentally and physically by both of her parents.

"Written in a young girl's unschooled voice, Push (Knopf) is a harrowing story of a brutalized child's journey to redemption and relevance. It's a searing indictment. A sensational read."
Kelvin Christoper James and Sapphire. "Sapphire" JSTOR. No. 57 (Fall, 1996) (pg.42-45). http://www.jstor.org/stable/40426488

Technology

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

PREZI

GRAphic & web design

GRAPHIC DESIGN CONCENTRATION:

Advertising concepts
Form and space, including advanced layout design
Package design
Business of graphic design
Publication design
Art direction

WEB DESIGN CONCENTRATION:

Information architecture
Audio & video
Experience design
Design for mobile devices & emerging technologies
Web page scripting