Sapphire, the author of the famous book Push, grew up in the United States and taught literature to teenagers and adults in Harlem (Sapphire, II). Having had experience with younger generations of people of different genders, social classes and ethnic backgrounds, she was able to observe to some extent the problems in the lives of her students; which probably inspired her to write the novel. By making the protagonist of African-American history like her, the author attempts to establish the fundamental reality of women's discrimination; illiterate and poor, but more importantly, how these women fight alone, without the support of men. Furthermore, we can observe how the author's feminist approach is a reaction to fantastical myths of ideal female lives, such as Cinderella, where the two characters live happily ever after. Claireece Precious Jones is the extreme opposite of what you might call white. , a stereotypically happy, middle-class girl. Far from being normal, this young black, illiterate and poor eighteen-year-old girl conceives two children, both from her sexually disturbed father: “1983 and 198...