What were the political, social, cultural, and economic forces “intersecting” to shape how she saw her daughter and how she saw herself? The film's first story is about precious herself, a character whose endlessly miserable life is like something out of the trojan women When she's not getting raped and impregnated by her father, she's getting sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her mother mary (mo'nique.) she even gets pushed around by strangers on the street. Precious' excessive weight and eating plays a central role in the movie Aspects of the story help illuminate many of the reasons emotional, physical, and particularly sexual abuse, are risk. The family resides in a section 8 tenement and survives on welfare
Precious's first child, a daughter named. Whose life is the movie precious based on The author drew her inspiration from her childhood experiences Her father, a sergeant in the us army, sexually abused her when she was eight years old On the other hand, her mother, a professional nurse, abandoned her at 13.
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