Rosa

I believe that Rosa refuses to admit that Magda is dead because she is morning the loss of her daughter. My friend had just told me a story about how her friends mother died and for the longest time the girl would go around acting like nothing happened. At the mothers funeral the girl wasn't even sad. She just waited around for her mom to come back home. She could never face the fact that her mother had actually died and wasn't going to come home. I think that is how Rosa is. She doesn't want to believe that her daughter is dead. She writes to her daughter still and even speaks to her like she is alive. It holds Rosa back because she isn't able to confront that her daughter had in fact died and wasn't going to come back to her. Rosa isn't able to move on with her life which becomes a huge factor in her American life. She isn't able to look past it and not forget but come to terms with what has actually happened with her daughter. She sits around and writes to Magda as if she's alive and doesn't communicate with the outside world because she's stuck in a world where her daughter is still alive.

Push

What is this book suggesting about themes like power, abuse, and survival?
The book Push is a very powerful book. The three themes power, abuse and survival play a huge role throughout the entire book. Precious was abused her entire life. Not only physically but mentally and emotionally also. Power and survival comes into play when she has to fight for everything in her life. She wants to give up and not be here but with Ms. Rain pushing her, she has to fight to survive with having a child at 12 and not having anyone there for her while she grew up and getting abused by her father. Everyone knew what was going on but no one said anything so for her to move forward in a sense is like her surviving. She has the power to do something with her life and not end up like her mother and grandmother and not let her mother get to her head and make her feel like she is nothing and she can't do anything good. Precious wants to get out of the vicious cycle of getting abused and feeling that hurt that her mother and grandmother put onto her.