I believe that Sapphire is trying to send a message to young women to inspire them through enlightenment, self knowledge, empowerment and that education is important. I believe that she did a great job at this although her bluntness through her story could actually push people away from reading her book. I know if I was in a negative environment and somebody gave me this book to read I wouldn’t want to read this book at all because it would make me actually more upset. I feel like Sapphires message could either be positive or negative depending on who you are and how you perceive the environment (pessimistic vs. optimistic).

 A major trend that Sapphire tries to incorporate is hope through various characters. By giving her character’s hope she implements/installs hope into her reading seeing that the style of the book takes you in. It’s almost as if she wants the reader to understand that no matter how many obstacles they go through they have to keep pushing. Therefore, if Precious could do it then anybody could do it because her obstacles were extremes and she made it through and is still pushing so you could as well.

By Sapphire incorporating the ending stories of the other character at the end of the book builds on the sense of “Hope”. It shows that although Precious went through a lot, she is not the only one. Giving readers or other people that you can get through anything as long as you put your mind to it and gain an education then everything would fall into place.