Push pgs. 1-100

Push is about a 16-year-old black girl living in Harlem. Her father has continually raped her for quite sometime now. She had her first baby when she was only 12 years old. The baby, Little Mongol, has Down syndrome, and now lives with her grandparents. Precious’s mom claims that she’s taking care of Precious and Little Mongol so she can get more money from welfare. When the principal of the school Precious is going to finds out that Precious is pregnant again, she kicks her out of school. But she tells Precious about a school that can help her get a G.E.D, and teach her to read and write. She starts going there, and befriends the teacher, Miss Rain. When Precious has the baby she goes back to living at home, after she got out of the hospital. We learn throughout the story that her mother is abusive. One day Precious walks out with her baby, Abdul. She goes back to the hospital, and they turn her away. She then is taken to the armory, which she finds to be awful, and gets her bags and possessions stolen. She then goes to a ½ Way house. Throughout this team she continues writing letter to Miss Rain, and she eventually starts going back to the class. One day her mother comes to the ½ Way house, and tells Precious her father has died because of AIDs. Precious doesn’t care at first, because she hates her father for raping her. Then she realizes that she’s at risk for the disease, and so are the children. She gets tested, and is HIV positive.