What were the political, social, cultural, and economic forces intersecting to shape how she saw her daughter and how she saw herself? Mary is the cruel, narcissistic mother of the novel's main character, precious, whom she subjects to constant verbal, physical and sexual abuse She turns a blind eye to the sexual abuse precious suffers at the hands of her father, carl jones, because she resents precious for stealin' her man. 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. Neglect within the household continues when her mom forces precious to take on the parent role and do the dishes and be scolded for not picking up her cigarettes The next event is a sexual abuse scenario
Precious is sexually abused by her father and is implied to have had the same thing happen to her by her mother, who also piles emotional and physical abuse on her including telling her nobody is ever going to love her. Eventually precious meets up with her mother in the social worker's office and, in a chilling scene, we discover the full extent of the abuse, causing the social worker to weep silently.
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