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.

 In all reality I believe that Sapphire is a great writer, she accomplished a very difficult task by embracing her character. Sometimes when you need a book you can tell that the author becomes caught up on the descriptions (such as scenery, objects, environmental) and lose track of the character. Sapphire embraced her character throughout the whole book using her eyes to create the world around the character. I respect Sapphire for this form of writing.

Many people in class complained about the reading of the book but, I didn’t find it hard at all. To be honest it was probably one of the easiest books we read so far. I think this because now in days my generation and future generations are butchering the English language through technological devices such as texting, Facebook, Twitter, Ipads, etc. So reading chopped English isn’t that difficult for me as say my grandmother or mother might find it.

Also, when reading through Sapphire style it gives you a sense of a harsh reality because the purpose/message isn’t meant to be ignored. It made me upset and angry that so much can be put into a character. The fact that the story wasn’t based on someone made me question Sapphire on why she would write something so harsh and why society excepted it to the point that it went into production.