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Anyone ever read the book PUSH?Edited....FINISHED IT

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beautyq115
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Anyone ever read the book PUSH?Edited....FINISHED IT

I have to read it for a literacy course that I am taking...WHOA wasn't expecting to be sooo graphic....I need to get it read and forget about it...its disturbing Chat Icon

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I finished it....I feel so bad for her but I was glad that she was getting help and seemed to be in a good place at the end...I wanted to know what happened to her thoughChat Icon

Even though it was graphic...I am glad that I read it

Message edited 9/16/2006 8:13:29 PM.

Posted 9/16/06 3:34 PM
 
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luvsbob4603
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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

What is it about?

Posted 9/16/06 3:45 PM
 

beautyq115
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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

Posted by luvsbob4603

What is it about?



A girl who was molested and raped by her father...She is black and poor and living in Harlem...She has 2 children by her father and they are both mentally retarted.....She graphically describes being raped by her father ...I almost vomitedChat Icon ANd how her unstable mother beats the crap out of her because she is raped by the father...lovely reading reallyChat Icon

Posted 9/16/06 3:48 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

What does that have to do with literacy? Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 9/16/06 4:29 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

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What does that have to do with literacy? Chat Icon Chat Icon


Thats my question tooChat Icon

Posted 9/16/06 4:32 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

OMG, that's horrible, that doesn't sound liek a book any discipline should have to read. Good luck sweetie, let us know how it turns out.Chat Icon

Posted 9/16/06 4:33 PM
 

luvsbob4603
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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

OMG that is heartbreaking even for a book!Chat Icon

Posted 9/16/06 4:34 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

Yes, i read it when I was getting my masters in lteracy as well. I really liked it. I especially liked the transformation she went through from beginning to end.

ETA: It is literacy related because through it all she was able to find her own voice by telling her story. If you look at the print in the book you can see how her literacy improves from beginning to end.

Message edited 9/16/2006 4:47:40 PM.

Posted 9/16/06 4:45 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

That book was very, very popular among the kids in my school when it first came out. I thought it was a bit too graphic for 8th graders and our principal wanted us to confiscate any copies.

Posted 9/16/06 4:51 PM
 

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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

My students read it quite often (at a local community college). It is often read in literacy courses because the young woman goes through the process of becoming literate throughout the book. While it is quite graphic and disturbing, it is a good portrayal of what an illiterate adolescent goes through.

Posted 9/16/06 5:13 PM
 

beautyq115
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Re: Anyone ever read the book PUSH?

Posted by coopersmom

My students read it quite often (at a local community college). It is often read in literacy courses because the young woman goes through the process of becoming literate throughout the book. While it is quite graphic and disturbing, it is a good portrayal of what an illiterate adolescent goes through.


Yes it is....when I wrote that I had just started the book and was asking myself...why am I reading this?? I am 3/4 through....she is learning to read and write...my heart really breaks for this character BUT its too graphic for me

Posted 9/16/06 5:16 PM
 
 

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