By the time the novel ends, the women have created an anthology of autobiographical stories called "LIFE STORIES – Our Class Book" appended to the book. Rain reads their entries and provides feedback and advice. She believes that the only way to learn to write is to write every day. Rain ignites a passion in her students for literature and writing. They start off by learning the basics of phonics and vocabulary building. Rain's class is a pre-GED class for young women who are below an eighth-grade level in reading and writing and therefore are unprepared for high school-level courses. All of the girls come from troubled backgrounds. Blu Rain, and fellow students Rhonda, Jermaine, Rita, Jo Ann, and Consuelo. Precious is furious, but the counselor later visits her home and convinces her to enter an alternative school, located in the Hotel Theresa, called Higher Education Alternative Each One Teach One.ĭespite her mother's insistence that she apply for welfare, Precious enrolls in the school. When her school discovers the pregnancy, it is decided that she should attend an alternative school.
Precious is a few months pregnant with her second child, the product of her father raping her he is also the father of her first child (who has Down syndrome). Claireece Precious Jones is a very fat, illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem with her abusive mother Mary.
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