If The Plot Were Juat A Tad Bit Different

If Precious' had not been a victim of incest, sexual, mental, emotional, and physical abuse would Sapphire's audience even be interested in Precious' story, sad thing is probably not. Nobody is interested in reading books that the protagonist doesn't have some kind of struggle. I strongly believe that Sapphire's main point of the novel was to critique social instituitons of large cities.

The novel also leaves the reader inquiring about if whether they turned a blind eye to someone in their time of need. Because you never know if you let someone down by not asking the right questions or not following through on something you turned over to the officials. But this critique alone thickens the plot.

Nobody is soley interested in reading the internal thoughts of someone while they are being raped by their father. Nobody is quite in love with the fact that your body may physically be pleasured by something while your also in utter disgust. But without this the novel would be dry.

I don't know, maybe the rambles have me questioning myself as a part of the audience. Why was the plot so interesting??