Summary
Precious learns that she is also HIV positive and also wishes that someone helped her when she was twelve. Rita takes Precious to a group counselling and her boyfriend also has HIV. For the first Precious goes to downtown and experiences a whole world outside of their homes. While she getgs with the group she realizes that she is not the only one that has problems. And no one can really avoid trouble, no matter how beautiful they are. Ms. Rain advises Precious to keep reading and writing. precious starts to write her own poem. each one of Precious's friend has a story that makes them to question their roles in the world. Precious also learns that her father started to sexually abuse her since she was a baby and her mother started abusing her as well because her father stopped giving her attention. Precious rejected her mother by refusing to go back to her. Rita's mother was shot by her father. Rhonda's mother kicked her out because she told her that her brother took advantages of her sexually. Jermaine's parents kicked her out when they dicovered that she was attracted to other females.
Quote
"But it is Mary-Mae's father who catches me one night to show me what a MAN is" (Sapphire 169).
Reaction
I think this is a bad way to castigate a girl for her sexuality. No one deserves to get abuse for any reasons. At the same time, people do not decides their sexuality. And also abusing a girl doesn't make a person a man. i felt bad for her and feels that society needs to accept people for who they are, not for who they want them to be.
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