precious

I am reading the book Precious. I didn't get to see the movie so I decided to read the book. It really does break my heart reading this book. its about a girl who gets raped by her father, had a baby at 12 and is having another one at the age of 16, her mother beats her and calls her a whore for stealing her husband, and on top of all of this Precious doesn't really have a good education. She's not very good at reading or writing.
What caught my attention was the relationship between her and her mother. her mother treats her as if she was a slave and not her daughter. She's always making her do things and giving precious commands, and she beats her really badly. she would punch her, slap her, and even get on top of her and continue beating on her. what bothers me is how she calls her a whore and slut.
 i think the mother is just mad because the father left her. Does she not realize that its not Precious's fault that her father rapes her. I think she does realize it but she just doesn't want to admit it. she doesn't want to admit the fact that she can't do anything to help her daughter out. she's completely hopeless in this situation. maybe thats the reason to which we sometimes don't like admitting things, and realizing that what we are doing is wrong. we may start to believe we can't do anything to help ourselves out so we become unaware of the problem.
instead of being a good mother she'd rather take all her anger out on Precious her only daughter. Instead of always beating her she should be taking care of Precious and helping her with the babies and teaching her how to do things the right way. But I guess she prefers to be the bad mother. the mother still has time to realize what she's doing is wrong. personally i don't think that hitting your child is that bad. if your child is misbehaving you can give them a little pow pow but talking to them is the better option. there's also the possibility that her mother got beat by her parents really badly as a child. there is research that shows that kids   who get abused by their parents as a child will suffer from some kind of violence problem. her mom probably takes out all her anger from her childhood on Precious. hopefully her mother will turn over a new leaf and try to change her ways with Precious.


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 i am reading the book Precious. I didn't get to see the movie so I decided to read the book. It really does break my heart reading this book. its about a girl who gets raped by her father, had a baby at 12 and is having another one at the age of 16, her mother beats her and calls her a whore for stealing her husband, and on top of all of this Precious doesn't really have a good education. She's not very good at reading or writing. What caught my attention was the relationship between her and her mother. her mother treats her as if she was a slave and not her daughter. She's always making her do things and she beats her really badly. what bothers me is how she calls her a whore and slut. The mother is just mad because the father left her. Does she not realize that its not Precious's fault? I think she does realize it but she just doesn't want to admit it. Wouldn't we be better off if we just admit to things? Wouldn't it save us more problems? Wouldn't it be releasing a great amount of stress from inside of us? It  will but i guess we don't think about that stuff. She'd rather take all her anger out on Precious her only daughter. Instead of always beating her she should be taking care of Precious and helping her with the babies and teaching her how to do things the right way. But I guess she prefers to be the bad mother. maybe in the end of the book she will have turned over a new leaf.

So Im still reading the book, A Time To Kill, and it la a really good book so far. It's about a man named Carl lee who murders two white men because they raped and beat his daughter Tanya. Now as a father I thought that was very brave of him. I'm glad he did that. But Carl lee wasn't thinking when he planned this out. Hwe wasn't thinking about his family and what they would be going through. He knew that he would go to jail and he knew there would be consequences. He just didn't know how big of a problem it would end up as. Now his family is living off of what people give them to eat, they are broke, and they haven paid bills in months. Did Carl lee think about this? Now his family is at risk of living in the streets and possibly starving to death because of his mistake. But overall I like how the family still loves him and have faith in him. They are a perfect example of what a family should be. Family should stick together during the bad and good times and always be there for each other. Carl lee was being a little selfish in taking matters into his own hands but he was just a father who wanted to stand up for his daughter. Thanks to those two guys the little girl will have to carry that memory with her the rest of her life. She will always have a little bit of anger inside of her all because of those two idiots.

A Time To Kill

The book Im reading now is called "A time to kill". This book is mostly about a father who goes through tons of trials in court because he killed the 2 guys who raped his 8 year old daughter. I think that was very brave of him to do that. He knew he was going to go hrough all this trouble but yet he did it. Now normally you shouldn't take the law into your own hands. But in the time period of his book the father felt like he didn't have a choice. The little girl got raped by two white guys and she was white. Back then those guys would have walked out of jail pleading not guilty just because they were white. Mr. Hailey, which is the father, knew thats how it was going to work so he killed them. don't get me wrong mr. Hailey should go to jail. He did kill two guys. But at the same time it's not like those guys were innocent victims. They dealer with drugs and raped a little girl. Also mr. Hailey was a concerned father and lost his mind. So I think he shouldn't be punished. What do you think?