“Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers: "Grow, Grow".”
Content:
Precious
Jones, a illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible:
invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the
authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when
Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and
highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and
enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how
to make it her own for the first time.
Cover:
The cover
is very simple and not very catching in my opinion. If I would see it in the
bookstore, I honestly wouldn’t pick it up.
My opinion:
I honestly
would have never picked up this book, simply because I don’t like a lot of
contemporary books, but I had to read this book for English class. And I really
didn’t enjoy it. Let’s start off with the writing style. The protagonist in
this book isn’t able to read or write at first, and that is also reflected by
the writing style. For me, as a non-native speaker, this was sometime really
hard to understand. I found myself reading one page for over 5 minutes,
although I’m usually a very fast reader. I just was so fed up with the book
when I was only about half way through. Furthermore, there were a lot of
grammatical mistakes which were really disturbing. The writing-style also kind
of destroyed my feelings for the characters. I couldn’t identify myself with
any of them and their stories, although they were touching, couldn’t get
through to me, kind of. There was a lot of potential with this story, because
it was very tragic and touching, but through the portraying of the characters and
the writing-style I felt like it was really just not my type of book.
Conclusion:
Unfortunately,
I just really didn’t enjoy this book. I'll give it 1.5 out of 5 stars, only for
the story, although for it was kind of a 1 out of 5 stars for me.
Rating:
1.5 | 5
stars
★-✬-☆-☆-☆
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