6. "life is hard. life is short. life is painful. life is rich. life is....precious."

Last week, the class watched the movie, Precious, but I missed that class and watched it by myself. First of all, it was very similar to the novel "The Bluest Eye" and it was as good and sad as it. The movie effected me almost in the same way with the novel. I kinda understood after the novel again how loneliness feels like.. Again a black girl looking for love, in the desire of being beautiful, again a dad who rapes his daughter and again a mother who does not have so much an effective relationship with the daughter. Precious was only a few ages older of Pecola, the same wants, the same kind of lifestyle are the obvious similarities between them. In the novel, it was mentioned that Pauline does not like her daughter because she is ashamed of her, but in the movie Precious's mother is jelaous of her daughter because she thinks her daughter has stolen her husband from her. In the novel such a case is not mentioned but it seemed possible to me.

The cruelty of people and the society's pressure was again very obvious in the movie as it was in the novel, but although Precious had aids and had a little life to live, she was luckier than Pecola because she had her children and supporters who was next to her to make her happy.

5. Justice

I want to write about the terrible occasion happened in Siirt.

8 boys, at the age of 13-14 raped 2 babies and killed one of them. Those boys' friend, 14 year-old girl brings them her cousins when those boys blackmail her and say if she does not bring them little babies, they show her inappropriate photos to her family, and the girl brings her 2-year old cousins to them. Here, the thing is again "honour killings". That girl is afraid of her family and so brings the babies to them. If we had lived in a more educated and conscious society, the result would not be this. That girl would go to police and prevent such an ugly case, instead of being afraid of her parents and bring the babies. But actually, when we see the result, we see that if she had gone to the police, maybe nothing would have changed, because the governor of Siirt has explained that they made a "deal" with those boys and they are with their families, instead of being in the jail.

4. There is no ugly women but less vodka

In the novel, "The Bluest Eye", we see again the ideal model of beauty, like we saw last semester. Last semester, we've watched the documentary "Killing Us Softly", and argued that a beautiful woman does not always have to be slim and all women do not have to have a flawless skin.

We also said that these ideas have grown in last years, comparing to 40's and 50's.

Here we see that there is always a strict rule of being beautiful. 50 years ago, a beautiful woman had to be absolutely white and now she has to be absolutely skinny. We always try to determine an absolute model. The natural beauty of a human, which is described in the last part of the novel is generally neglected. 50 years ago, girls like Pecola were going mad because of the desire of being white and now girls are dying because of slimming pills. It is very classic but I think we have to see the beauty inside as the humankind.