Ms.Rain: I think your first responsibility has to be to yourself. If you keep
Abdul, you might have nothing. You’re learning to read and write, that’s everything. You come back to school when you get
out of the hospital. You’re only 17.Being a good mother might mean letting Abdul be raised by someone who’s better able than
you meet his needs you can got GED, and go to college. You can do anything precious.
Precious: “Some folks got a light around them that shine for other
peoples, I think maybe some of the tunnels, and in that tunnel, maybe the only light they had was inside of them, and then even
long after they escaped that tunnel, they still be shinnig for everybody else, that’s Ms.Rain to me.”
Precious: All years I sit in class, I never learned, now I got a baby again
by my father. I wish I had a boyfriend like the other girls, and then I’ll feel right. I love my baby, I just wanna be a good
mother. I’m gonna read to this baby too, and hang colors on its well. Listen baby, mother not dumb Mother loves you. When
she was studying at the class”.
From the text above, the writer analyzes that she has a good relationship
with her friends and her teacher. She can change her characteristics to becomes independent, confident, responsible and mature person. She starts her new life
with her children, she can be an educated girl and a good mother for her children. In short, Precious’s characteristics in this film reflect feminist ideas.
C. Feminist Ideology on Precious’s Characteristics
From the analyses of Precious’s character, the writer finds out that Precious’s characteristics reflect feminist ideas. In the beginning of the film,
Precious experiences oppression from school, family, and friends that indicates that she gets discrimination, unfair treatment, and violence from her society.
However, in the end of the film, she overcomes and be able to reach her wishes to be a good independent mother and she can find a new life. Finally she grows up
and becomes a mature, independent in action, mind, and economy.
Precious tries hard to make her wishes come true and to overcome oppression from her step father. In addition, she must fight her mother who believes that
school is not important for girls and it waste money. Despite of her mother disapproval, Precious is able to complete her degree
GED, and she even has ambition to get a higher education. In order to be independent, Precious decides to leave the house and her mother and live only
with her children in different place. Her desires to fight the oppression from her society reflect the feminist ideas. When she faces difficult situation, she is able to
solve it courageously and bravely, without being afraid to people. She is being oppressed when she is pregnant and the headmaster doesn’t
allow her to study, so she is a woman who experience rapery. But she is able to improve herself after she gets some supports from her teacher in the Alternative
School, until she can finally read and write. Precious wants to change her life, and at the end of the story Precious can
handle her children without her mother’s help and she becomes a good, smart, responsible and independent girl even though her age is only 16 years old. She
becomes an independent girl and she can decide what she wants to do including her decisions to live only with her children. She can be an independent individual
and she can make her wish come true without fear of anything. As a young mother, Precious doesn’t want her life to be ruled by other people including her
mother and she doesn’t want to be defeated by her mother.
So the feminist ideology exposed by the film is through the Precious’s characteristics. The writer just focuses on Precious because she is the main
character who fights for her independence. She can faces all problems in her life, studies hard, and tries to be better person than before.
The self confident is a tool that the film offers for every girl to deal with problems and able to be in the same position as men to stand up on their own feet
and to be proud of them, although they have different background of family, education, financial, and social status, they must face as challenges and must
belives that they can face and solve their problems. Finally, in the end of the film there is a statement “FOR PRECIOUS GIRL
EVERYWHERE.” It can be said as the message of this film based on the ideology that is presented in the film. This statement means every girls, regardless race,
age, education background, or conflict faced, are precious and able to face obstacle and win them. This film wants to show for every girls to proud of
theirselves although they’re not perfect, for example from the physical appearance, educational background, and social status. Their must have self
confident and belives that they’re precious and wonderful girls.
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
