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.