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Precious and her hair is a story that a lot of girls tend to follow, it is a story about how a girl would take herself to the extremes and do anything just to get a boy who doesn?t even notice them. The story takes place in Jamaica, and the main character is a 17 year old high school girl named Precious, who has a mad crush on a boy who is slightly older than she is, and does not even take notice of Precious.

            Precious would watch him everyday on his way to school, and saw that he liked girls with long waivy hair. Now normally that wouldn?t be a problem, but Precious had only a head of short rough curls. She wanted to do anything to change herself into a girl that he would like, which shows a lack of genuiness. Precious considered herself to be pretty insignificant, and did not know the influence that she had at her school. That is shown in the part of the story where Precious goes to the local hair dresser, and decides to get a weave of braids in her hair, she did that while constantly being reminded, by her mom, that the boy she liked was no good. The problem was that her hair was so short and weak that the weave fell off her head along with the rest of her short curls, so Precious was left bald. After her mom sees this, we see just how popular Precious really is, because she wore a big turban to school, to conceal her head, and started a whole new trend at her school, where as she made something that people thought was ugly, and completely ?mom? style, into the next fashion craze at her school. All the while Precious did not even notice because she was still trying to figure out how to make the boy love her.

            After the wreck of her hair, Precious goes to the village elder, who knows many different potions and remedies for all kinds of problems. So Precious goes to see her one day, and the elder lady, who is rich in wisdom, gives her this potion to give Precious a long flowing head of hair. I think that the older lady lady was really just trying to test Precious to see exactly how far she would go to get a boy that she liked. I say this because in order to get the boy she liked, Precious would have to put the potion, which consisted of literal shit, on her head every night for three months. Now I don?t know about you, but I wouldn?t want a girl who rubbed shit on her head every night just to try and get my attention. At the end of the story, Precious sees the boy she likes with a white girl, who he had never even seen before. The part that really opened Precious? eyes was the fact that the girl was just a tourist. That let Precious know that the boy was just out to get any girl he could and that he did not want Precious.