By Charlene Pereira e Rebello: Interpretation

You can compare Precious and the girl in the picture. You can say that Precious is scared of telling strangers about her situation, because she is afraid of what her mother may do to her, if she tells anyone. If she tells the social worker, that she has been raped, and that her mother hits her, then she and her mother will not get welfare anymore, and they depend on the welfare-money, because they can't live without the money. But she knows that they can't really do anything about it anyway, and Precious do not think, that the social worker is able to help her with her problems. You can also see that the girl is crying, and that she is afraid. Precious is a strong girl, but she is crying inside. She keeps all of her problems to herself.