This paper looks at the book Push, by Sapphire. In this analysis, the details of race, gender, and social injustice will be looked at, as well as an overall review of this book. The novel Push, by Sapphire, portrays an American Experience that most people are not familiar with. Push is the story of a young girl, Precious Jones, who must deal with a lot of negative situations that are associated (stereotyped) with life in Harlem. One of the perceptions of street life in a poor urban area is teenage pregnancy; by the age of sixteen precious is expecting her second child. Both of her children were fathered by her own father as he repeatedly raped Precious.
