Is that correct Claireece?”
“ Are you pregnant again?”
“What happened Claireece?”
-Claireece looks at her blankly-
Claireece: “ I had sex Ms. Lichenstein.”
This happens once more when the social worker visits her house and Precious has the opportunity to expose her mother for who she is, but when she is asked if everything is okay, she tells them everything is fine, once again suppressing her feelings and displaying suitable emotion for the public.
In conclusion, the sociological concept of self and interaction is strongly tied to the movie ‘Precious’. The things endured by Precious really represent the hardships of many women who are in similar situations and feel like there is no escape. The journey Precious took from identifying herself in a negative image and having poor interactions with others to becoming
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Claireece ‘Precious’ Jones is a sixteen year old African American, illiterate and obese girl who lives with her abusive mother, Mary, who is unemployed and neglectful. Claireece has gone through tremendous sexual abuse including being raped by her own biological father several times from she was only three years old that has resulted in her bearing one child and another on the way. This resulted in her having severe hatred for herself, her race and taking a toll on the socialization process of interacting with others, Her family completely survives off welfare and her mother comes up with all types of plans to get as much money as she can from the government because she is lazy and had selfish motives. Precious was no longer able to attend high school upon her second pregnancy so she was forced to enroll in an alternative school where she began to be lead by her inspirational new lesbian teacher, Miss Blu Rain. Precious often escapes her reality through daydreams wishing of fame, fortune and being loved. Eventually, she gets her life together and triumphs over all the tribulations in her
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
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