Carl Jones: Precious Mother

In families, every member tends to have a role. Mary, Precious mother, is her primary caretaker. However, she is also the main and primary source of physical and emotional abuse that interacts with Precious life. Her mother’s source of abuse continues in taking advantage of Precious by using her to obtain welfare checks. Her own mother has no importance regarding Precious education or future. She refers to her own daughter as “dumb” continuously. In comparison, Carl Jones main role is to be the father of Precious, but at the same time her rapist. He has been taking sexual advantages on his own daughter since her childhood until he dies. Carl Jones raped Precious who had two of his children. Carl Jones was also the catalyst of the abuse Precious

received from her mother. Mary kept screaming at precious and reminding her that she “stole her man.” Precious family also included her grandmother. However, her grandmother had a clear role in the family. Her role was to allow the abuse to happen and take care of Precious first child Mongo Jones, who has Down Syndrome. Mongo is taken care of by the grandmother until she eventually ends up with Precious. Even though everyone had one role to play in the family system established in Precious life, she herself played multiple roles. Precious own role was to try to connect to her mother, pursue education, marry and have a great family. However, the role she played around her mother was to be submissive, allow any type of abuse, and provide welfare checks. When her father was around, Precious role was to let him do what he wanted to do to her and when around her grandmother, it was to allow verbal abuse about her children.