She told me she'd been terribly unhappy in her marriage and could not see a way out, except to leave all of us. There was no great revelation, no feel-good happy ending, although in the 10 years before she died of cancer, we managed to reconcile and partially rebuild our relationship. In the meantime, Sapphire had started writing and performing poetry, and had begun her first novel.
She showed the first pages to her college mentor, the novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, who loved its raw, unique voice and insisted that she send it to the renowned feminist agent Charlotte Sheedy. Push sold an impressive , copies and instantly attracted the attention of young film-maker Lee Daniels but Sapphire refused to sell the movie rights. She was more involved with the screenplay than she expected, she says.
He's made a wonderfully sensitive film that challenges our prejudices and somehow makes you feel hopeful. In Utah, a white woman came up to me after a screening and said: I will never look at an overweight black woman in the same way again.
Actually, what it's really about is the transformative power of literacy. At the end of the film, Precious is still black, still poor and still fat but what's changed is that she can read and write and has begun to re-invent herself.
She has left her abusive home environment, and has gone from feeling stupid and worthless to embracing a positive vision of her future. She smiles. An abused person empowering herself through language and literature and writing. I did the same. Thirteen years ago I planted a seed, and now this big tree comes.
ES Money. The Escapist. The Reveller. The Optimist. ES Best. ES Mag. Follow us:. That's part of what I wanted to bring out in the text. For example, at one point, one of Abdul's abusers says to him, "Show me some love. Sapphire says she wanted to show how an innocent boy is transformed by his negative experiences. The novel highlights not just the transformative power of art, but also of memory.
Sapphire explains that when Abdul conjures up memories of his mother, he stays emotionally alive. For example, she says, when Abdul dances he says he feels "warm and dark like my mom. But — spoiler alert — the book does not offer a feel-good ending. Abdul is ultimately confronted by a doctor who allows him to see himself, to stop pointing the finger at the world and look at himself as a victimizer. Her book is also an indictment of society, she says: "We do see what happens when there was a loss of social services, and there was no safety net.
So the child fell. The alternative school is having a good effect on Precious. On a class trip to the museum, Precious realizes that she wants to teach her babies, and that she will keep the undelivered baby. Eventually, Precious goes into labor and delivers her second child, Abdul. Precious brings Abdul home to Mary. This time Mary has had it with Precious. Mary asks to hold Abdul, but then throws him on the couch and throws a glass at Precious and begins beating her.
Because Precious exposed her wrongdoing, resulting in her welfare being cut off, Mary claims that Precious ruined her life, and the two fight. Precious decides to run away with Abdul. In the process, Mary throws a TV set at them, which the two avoid. Not long afterwards, Mary tears up Precious' room. Precious stays with her teacher Ms. Rain and her lesbian lover until she and Abdul move into a halfway house. Her literacy has improved dramatically and she is rewarded for it. Precious fears that she and Abdul might have come down with the HIV virus.
Precious gets tested for the virus. Precious continues to attend the alternative school and raise Abdul on her own while her daughter Mongo stays with her grandmother. Mary and Precious meet one last time with Mrs. Mary reveals that Carl molested Precious and that she blames Precious for him leaving. The reason for Precious' antagonistic relationship with her mother was her mom being jealous that her husband would rather have sex with his daughter than with her.
In her mother's eyes, Precious was stealing him away from her. Mary apologizes to Precious and expresses interest in reuniting the family, including Mongo. Because of that Precious takes Mongo out of Mary's arms. She refuses to reunite with Mary and decides to take her kids and leave her forever. Mary begs Ms. Weiss to help her get Precious back but Ms. Weiss ignores her and leaves her without saying a word. Once Precious leaves the welfare office, Mary never sees her again. Precious raises Mongo and Abdul and protects them from Mary, and lastly, the three live happily ever after.
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