Struggle with Self-Esteem in Novel Push and Flim Precious

When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? For most people the answer is no, we can always find something that is â€Å"wrong† with us. Why is it that we think very low of ourselves? Everyone has different reasons for feeling like this. It can come from within ourselves or something in our surrounding that makes us like that. In my essay I will talk about Precious Jones, the main character from the novel Push and the film Precious. I will talk about how different things happening in her life has caused her to have a low self-esteem and how it holds her back. In my essay I will also mention how those things are still going on in present day. I enjoyed both film and novel but they did have some differences. In the novel you get to know Precious’s thoughts and the reasons for her actions were in the film you can’t. One thing that I really enjoyed from the novel, that wasn’t included in the film, was being able to read the background of the rest of the girls that attended Each One Teach One. Another obvious distinction is that in the film we are introduced to a male nurse that was never mentioned in the novel. In the novel the nurse is a female, I’m not sure why the director decided to change the sex. I think one of the biggest differences was that the film didn’t mention the meeting about incest and HIV as much, which I thought was very important in Precious’s way to succeed. Apart from having a handful of differences, both the novel and film both tell the life of