Throughout the story, the reader is presented with a series of conflicts the girl faces. Her main problem was that she had a problem with men and boys. She felt that they were evil and only wanted one thing. I feel that she lived in her own world, where she made all the rules. "...she swallowed her coffee which the maid, scratching herself in the gloom of the kitchen, had reheated. She scarcely touched the bread which the butter failed to soften."1 This was extremely unhealthy for her, physically and mentally. Not eating healthily will make a person weak and can lead to many diseases. She did this to have men and boys avoid her, which was also unhealthy. Man or woman, one cannot avoid life and its people.

I don't feel it is possible to be psychologically fit if a person cannot interact with a certain group because of a fear they have. Being scared of a certain person in

The rising action, when the two boys were approaching here on an early morning, lead to a major problem. At the climax, the two boys groped the girl. At that moment, her bubble, malignantly protecting her from the world of reality, exploded. The destruction of her bubble led to an amazing revelation that changed her life. She was no longer a girl, but a young woman. I feel that this was when she started accepting the truth about life and about whom she had become. She then understood that you couldn't avoid life.

that group is normal, but the entire group is a bit extreme. Life is a learning experience, but you can't fully experience life if you avoid certain things in it. One has to face reality at some point in life, it can be done the easy way, by accepting reality, or done the hard way, by denying the truth. The main character of the story decided that it would be better if she did things the hard way.

Preciousness is a story about life. Not just the girl's life, but also all of our lives in general. Everyone, at some point in life, has felt uneasy about being around certain people. We all have changed from a carefree child to an adult who has many responsibilities. We all carried a precious jewel of innocence as a child, but some of us have carelessly given them away or had it taken away. Prejudice, fear, and hate are factors in life that the majority of people have to face and overcome. The fact that the author didn't give the girl a name made it obvious that the girl's problems could be applied to the re

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