What were the political, social, cultural, and economic forces intersecting to shape how she saw her daughter and how she saw herself? The film's first story is about precious herself, a character whose endlessly miserable life is like something out of the trojan women When she's not getting raped and impregnated by her father, she's getting sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her mother mary (mo'nique.) she even gets pushed around by strangers on the street. Precious' excessive weight and eating plays a central role in the movie Aspects of the story help illuminate many of the reasons emotional, physical, and particularly sexual abuse, are risk. The most disturbing part about precious is precious' parents
Precious is sexually abused by her father, whom she has two children with and who gives her hiv Instead of protecting her from her father, precious' mother accuses her of stealing her man and hates her, culminating in terrible physical abuse even while precious is pregnant. By the end of the movie, we discover that the reason precious's mother sexually and physically abused her was because she was mad that precious had received attention from the father Mary believed precious was stealing her man by allowing him to abuse her, and that it was ultimately precious's fault he left. This was a continuous of the sexual abuse but by her mother not her father Her mother used the father leaving as a justification of the abuse she did to precious.
The movie, based on the novel push by sapphire, describes the difficult childhood and adolescence of clarissa precious jones She is constantly exposed to emotional and physical violence from her unemployed mother, mary, and has been sexually abused by her father Precious has a pregnancy and a child with down syndrome from him.
OPEN
