http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog
Great essay about blogging
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Push by Sapphire
Now that I have finished it, I understand why this book is now a movie.
I heard an interview with Sapphire today. She said that people have
continuously asked her for the rights to make this book into a movie
since it first came out in 1996. She said she's happy with the movie.
She said that in Utah (presumably at Sundance) a white woman in the
audience said in response to the film that she would now look at a fat
black woman and see her as a person: (emphasis mine)
"After seeing this film, she had to deal with an obese black woman as a feeling, intelligent person, as a person who dreams, as a person who wants the things that she wants. So we brought up a stereotype, and we cracked it open, and a human being comes forth." (link to interview)
This book is about the incredible journey of this one girl to
overcome the terrible hand she was dealt and begin to be a part of the
world. She learns that she needs not fight the world on her own.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this book is about these tragic stories,
these abused women and the sorrow of their lives, but I don't think
so. The girls that Precious (the main character and narrator) meet in her literacy class, each has her own way that she has fought to overcome. They can find the beauty in their lives, and I
think what Sapphire wanted to show was the resilience of people, of
women.
At least that's what she said to me.
I heard an interview with Sapphire today. She said that people have
continuously asked her for the rights to make this book into a movie
since it first came out in 1996. She said she's happy with the movie.
She said that in Utah (presumably at Sundance) a white woman in the
audience said in response to the film that she would now look at a fat
black woman and see her as a person: (emphasis mine)
"After seeing this film, she had to deal with an obese black woman as a feeling, intelligent person, as a person who dreams, as a person who wants the things that she wants. So we brought up a stereotype, and we cracked it open, and a human being comes forth." (link to interview)
This book is about the incredible journey of this one girl to
overcome the terrible hand she was dealt and begin to be a part of the
world. She learns that she needs not fight the world on her own.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this book is about these tragic stories,
these abused women and the sorrow of their lives, but I don't think
so. The girls that Precious (the main character and narrator) meet in her literacy class, each has her own way that she has fought to overcome. They can find the beauty in their lives, and I
think what Sapphire wanted to show was the resilience of people, of
women.
At least that's what she said to me.
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