Precious Essay

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Analysis of the movie ”Precious” The movie Precious is about the obese 16-year-old girl Claireece ”Precious” Jones and has setting in Harlem in 1987. Claireece is aggresive, dark-skinned, illeterate, constantly harassed by her fellow pupils in school, both physically and verbally abused by her mom, who has made a living on tricking the welfare. Other than that Claireece has a daughter with down's syndrome by her HIV-infected father who regularly rapes her with the mothers connivance. She is now pregnant with a second baby by him. The abuse of Claireece began when she was already a 3-year-old baby by the father raping her saying that he was more attracted to her than the mother. The mother, Mary, got so jealous that she would start to abuse her own daughter. The movie operates with many themes but the main theme is hope. In the start we meet Claireece with nothing but hope. Later when it is discovered that Claireece is pregnant with her second baby the highschool has to suspend her. However the principal arranges a change of school for Claireece. After some time she can finally start at a new alternative school where she meets her new teacher Blu Rain. Blu Rain does something Claireece and the other kids in the class have never experienced before. Blu Rain can be that someone to actually care about their future for them. That gave Claireece the chance of getting some education and a better life in general and even gave Claireece the guts to stand up against her mother. And by the end of the movie we meet a Claireece who made it through even though she had the worst circumstances, that is why she had reason to have hope. The relationship between Claireece and her mother is very tense. It is clear that the mother has oppressed Claireece since the father began raping her. The mother started accusing Claireece for stealing her man since he was now more

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