Precious tells her story to the reader is a third person point of view, capturing her own thoughts in her own styling; an illiterate, sometimes incoherent manner.
It is clear Sapphire takes many different institutions of the United States head on, such as public education and health, the lack of community of modern day, and social workers, but through something as subtle as spelling mother as "muver," for example, Sapphire also takes on the issue of illiteracy, especially in higher aged children and teens. The frustration felt by the reader as we try to piece together the phonetic scribbles that Precious must've felt as she wrote them, helps embody the frustration Sapphire believes we should feel for the issue, wholly.
Push is such a powerful, canonical, piece of literature because it not only finds its way into the reader's core emotions and psyche, but illuminates the problems of modern society and stimulates the desire for correction.
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