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While the smash hit film Precious is as deep and gritty as a film drama can get Giants Eli Apple Jersey , the novel upon which the movie is based is even more intense as it explores the intricacies of a violent mother daughter relationship.
Originally entitled Push, the award winning novel was written in 1996 by the novelist simply known as Sapphire. Precious tells the story of an obese, dark skinned, illiterate African American girl who has survived two pregnancies by her fatherthe first resulting in an infant with Downs Syndromeand the horrific abuse heaped upon her by her mother, Mary.
The mother daughter relationship is mostly lopsided. Mary, the most violent, spends most of her time smacking her daughter around and shouting orders and insults at Precious from her well worn recliner. In order to enact revenge on Precious for having been raped by her father Giants Odell Beckham Jr Jersey , Mary kicks her daughter in the head as she gives birth to her first child on the floor of their apartment.
Precious is the quintessential story of a dysfunctional family whose fatheralthough mostly absentis the catalyst for all of the hostility in the mother daughter relationship between the girl and woman left behind. When the father impregnates Precious twice, her mother Mary tells a social worker that there was nothing she could do to stop him if he preferred her daughter as a sexual partner.
This continued abuse by the father created an irreparable chasm in the mother daughter relationship as Mary became resentful of her daughter not only as a financial burden but also as a sexual adversary.
The father is seen only briefly in the beginning of the film as he has sex with the adolescent Precious, telling her that she is a better sex partner than her mother. This is what initially puts the mother daughter relationship at odds.
In both the book and movie, Precious experiences some guilt because she begins to enjoy the sex with her father, but knows she is also betraying her mother. Her father disappeared after the birth of Precious first child, leaving her mother to blame her daughter for his absence in the household. Precious seems to blame all Black men for the turmoil she has experienced in her life, even down to the male schoolmates who taunt her and push her face down into the dirt and laugh at her expense.
The book begins with Precious revealing some shocking elements of her pitiful young life:
I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver. That was in 1983. I was out of school for a year. This gonna be my second baby. My daughter got Down Sinder. She s retarded. I had got left back in the second grade too Giants Eli Manning Jersey , when I was seven, cause I couldn t read (and I still peed on myself). I should be in the eleventh grade, getting ready to go into the twelf grade so I can gone n graduate. But I m not. I m in the ninfe grade.
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