Precious Movie Essay

The movie Precious is a movie about a sixteen year old girl and what she has gone through in while living with her mother. The main characters name is Claireece Precious Jones, she goes by the name Precious, and is an overweight African American girl. At school she keeps to herself and does not talk, at home she is abused physically, mentally, sexually, and verbally by her mother Mary and her father. She has now had one child by her father, who rapes her when he wants, and is currently pregnant with her second child, also by her father. She is now at an alternative school, after being kicked out of her Jr. High for being pregnant. At her alternative school is learning to read and write but also to grow as a person. Since starting the alternative school she has found friends and a few adults that she can trust in. The film shows …show more content…
Because Precious left the home and was homeless, she and the baby were in danger, because of this Precious broke into her school for a place to sleep for herself and the baby. This almost caused the staff of the school to call the police, had her teacher Ms. Rain not walked back to the classroom Precious could have been arrested for breaking and entering a private location. Thankfully the teacher did go look and then began to help Precious look for a place to live. This is something that I as a social worker would do for a client. First find them a place to live, then get them there and make sure they get the assistance they need, lastly cancel the services of the mother who should not have been getting them in the first place. Once Precious is in a safe place, I would then look to see how I could reunite her with her first child who has down syndrome. If there is no way to get them back together I would make sure that the actual caregiver of the child, Mongo, get the assistance and benefits the child