"Push"

I believe that it her decision to change was always there it just took her a while to gain the strength to change. But when she gain it she went full force, she was determined. The alternative school was a big part of her change. Being at school and around her friends is where her thoughts about things and views change. Then the change came with her wanting to be the best mother she can be. Which kind of shocked me. With Precious being so young and not even all together and with the father being the baby’s father to have to live with the hurt and replaying of what happen to her, or maybe seeing him in her son. It is a very hard thing to deal with . I believe the friendships she made and her perspective of her friends changed a lot of her perspectives she got from society. There is a part in the book that brought up being homosexual and how Precious didn’t agree with it due to religion and the world. But when it was looked as what kind of people hurt you verses who didn’t and determining who was wrong in that aspect she didn’t find any wrong in people being homosexual. In fact it was homosexuals that helped her through because her teacher along with one of her friends were. When precious went to her group meeting she also discovered she couldn’t based what happen to her on how she looked. There were a lot of girls in the group and within those girls there were different races, hair colors, eye colors, shapes , and sizes. Precious defining herself and gaining self esteem I believe came with her teacher not wanting to her anything negative and letting them put themselves or each other down. Also with having her son she has to set an example so she is gradually getting to that point.