Precious/Push

I found the book Precious to be quite nerving in the sense I felt very sorry for the character Precious in this story.   All the heart pulling struggles she had to go thru.   This story has a lot harsh and vulgar wording in it and very dramatic scenes to read.   Practically almost every page I have read I have found myself feeling sorry for her.  I did not like how Precious was treated by her mother.   I did not like that she was being taken advantage of by her mother just so she could stay on welfare instead of letting Precious be able to get it for her and her own child.   I hated how she was beat by her mother and how she made Precious's baby go live with her grandmother instead of letting Precious try to raise her on her own.   I also did not like the way Precious's mother let her father rape her, causing her to become pregnant with two of his children.   This made my own skin crawl because of my own experience of being molested by my stepfather at about the same age as Precious was by hers, and why her own mother did not try to put a stop to it.   I did not like the way she felt and described her first baby girl mongo.  that name was not very nice to give her and her mother should had loved her enough to not let her name her baby that.   I know what it feels liketo have a child with Down Syndrome.   My own 19 year old son andrew has it.   Even though he has a mild case of it , I still rather have a hard time dealing with it emotionally.   I did like that she still tryed to keep her head up through it all and found a little peace when she was at school trying to learn something.   Sometimes I myself find a little peace for myself by going to school and escaping the pressures of my home life, if only for a couple of hours a day.