This Reminds Me Of...

"I let go of my breath. She does that terrible ironic laugh again. "I don't have a lot of time for friends," she says. And then she goes goes ahead and tells me the kinds of things that have gone on in that house, and when she is finished, I am shaking." Tia-the girl mentioned in the quote- reminds me of Precious from the movie, Precious. In my book, Tia is being abused by her stepfather in her own home. It isn't clear what kind of abuse, but it's likely physical and/or sexual. In the movie Precious, Precious is a character who is constantly being physically, verbaly, and sexually abused by both her parents. I connected these because they are both girls in similar situations- with the abuse happening by parents in their own home.