It has been a box office and critical success. At the Sundance Festival in Utah where it premiered last January it won best drama, at Cannes last May it received a minute standing ovation, and on the day I do this interview, they are queuing around the corner in New York City. Directed by Lee Daniels, who says he related to the book partly because he had been physically abused in his childhood, the film has no big names in the main roles.
It stars first-time actress Gabourey Sidibe, 24, who has been tipped for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Precious, and Mo'Nique, a bawdy comedienne well-known in New York who plays Precious's sadistic mother with consummate ambiguity. There are also supporting roles for Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. Sapphire, meanwhile, has been surfing her own wave of popularity.
Her publishers, Random House, recently pushed the button on a one-million print run. Speaking to the Evening Standard in her first British newspaper interview, Sapphire, who was born Ramona Lofton in Fort Ord, California, and looks significantly younger than her 59 years, is disarmingly down to earth. She describes herself as bisexual and admits to being sexually abused by her own father, a US army sergeant, at the age of eight and abandoned by her mother, a nurse, when she was But the story is not autobiographical, she says.
I sort of reeled, thinking I'd heard wrong, and when I asked again how old her daughter was, she told the class: I had a baby by my father when I was 12'.
This woman was black, slim and HIV-positive. But to create my character, Precious [who also has a Down's syndrome baby at 12 and is also HIV-positive], I mixed her with my other students, including a teenager who was profoundly obese and illiterate, and who more physically embodies the character Precious you see on the screen.
Sapphire wrote the book, she says, after she left teaching to do a masters in creative writing at Brooklyn College because at the time she thought: if I don't tell their stories, who will? I was the second of four children, and he would beat us and make us rewash all the dishes if they didn't come up to his obsessive-compulsive standards. Dad had served in the Korean War and claimed to have been a prisoner of war who had suffered extreme deprivations and hallucinations. He once told me he had eaten his combat boot after mistaking it for a strip of bacon.
Sapphire's family lived in military bases across America and in Germany, but when she was 13 her father retired from the army and bought a big house in Los Angeles. The plan was for their mother to send the children on ahead and follow once she'd packed up their flat in Philadelphia.
But without calling or explaining, she never arrived. It was traumatic — but to be left with our crazy dad, doubly so. On finishing school she fled her father's house in Los Angeles for a new start. She also reveals that she delivered Mongo while lying on the floor as Mary was kicking her on the head.
There are also implications that Mary herself had molested Precious. The alternative school is having a good effect on Precious. On a class trip to the museum, Precious realizes that she wants to teach her babies, and that she will keep the undelivered baby. Eventually, Precious goes into labor and delivers her second child, Abdul. Precious brings Abdul home to Mary.
This time Mary has had it with Precious. Mary asks to hold Abdul, but then throws him on the couch and throws a glass at Precious and begins beating her. Because Precious exposed her wrongdoing, resulting in her welfare being cut off, Mary claims that Precious ruined her life, and the two fight.
Precious decides to run away with Abdul. In the process, Mary throws a TV set at them, which the two avoid. Not long afterwards, Mary tears up Precious' room. Precious stays with her teacher Ms.
Rain and her lesbian lover until she and Abdul move into a halfway house. Her literacy has improved dramatically and she is rewarded for it. Precious fears that she and Abdul might have come down with the HIV virus. Precious gets tested for the virus. Precious continues to attend the alternative school and raise Abdul on her own while her daughter Mongo stays with her grandmother. Mary and Precious meet one last time with Mrs. Mary reveals that Carl molested Precious and that she blames Precious for him leaving.
The reason for Precious' antagonistic relationship with her mother was her mom being jealous that her husband would rather have sex with his daughter than with her. In her mother's eyes, Precious was stealing him away from her. Mary apologizes to Precious and expresses interest in reuniting the family, including Mongo. Because of that Precious takes Mongo out of Mary's arms. She refuses to reunite with Mary and decides to take her kids and leave her forever. Mary begs Ms.
Weiss to help her get Precious back but Ms. Weiss ignores her and leaves her without saying a word. Once Precious leaves the welfare office, Mary never sees her again. Precious raises Mongo and Abdul and protects them from Mary, and lastly, the three live happily ever after. Heroes Wiki. In late s, the illiterate, in her sweet sixteen, Claireece Jones, is a dangerously obese junior high student from Harlem whom people call her "Precious", even though no one seems to believe it.
On the streets, she is bullied, called names, and pushed about. But at home, things are even worse.
Already pregnant with her second child, the abused Precious is struggling to persevere by cocooning herself within the protective realm of delusion, where everyone is kind, everything is bright, and she is the star. Who knows, maybe somewhere in this world lies hidden the love and compassion all the hurt but Precious people strive to find.
In , Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed.
So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. Sign In. Edit Precious II Jump to: Summaries 4 Synopsis 1.
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