week 3: assignment #3
Re-read “Precious and Her Hair.” This time, read it in terms of Positive Psychology. Write a 300 - 350 word essay exploring these questions and ideas. State your ideas clearly, use examples and quotes from the story and from Positive Psychology sites on the Internet.
Precious and Her Hair
The main characters in precious and her hair all have different strengths. Precious shows ingenuity, valor, and self-control in the story. One example of one of her strengths from the story is when she had to put that smelly solution on her head every night that made her head itch realy badly and she didnt back down from doing it she stuck it out. She was showing the strength called valor. Another character in the story was precious’s mother Lucille her signature strengths were emotional intelligance, integrity, and hope. An example of one of her strengths from the story is when she got down on her knees and prayed for her daughter she said,”Maasa god, please bless my daughter, let her have ambition and common sense and I beg of you, lord, please let her turn out good.” Another important character in the story that showed some signature strengths is sister homilia. Her strengths were judgement and spirituality for example when she looked at precious’s bold head she didnt jump to a conclusion she took in all the facts and examined the problem from all sides she was showing her judgement strength. Some signature strengths that precious should of used were citizenship because then she whouldnt of had to try so hard to get close to neville she whould of already been in his social group. Also another strength she should of used is apreciation because then she whould of apreciated the beauty she already had and whouldnt of lost her hair trying to make herself preaty like the other girls. By the end of the story precious changed her ways in the begining she was envyes of the other girls, but after she went through all that suffering of trying to make herself look like the other girls and when she finaly did she didnt get nevile. She realized that vanity and being envyes wasnt worth it. Because she went through all that pain for nothing. She gained the signature strength apreciation. If I were a counseler I whould of told precious not to be jealous of the other girls, they might be pretyer, but your very beautiful aswell the only differance is you have a better personality, and a good heart. Precious and I have a couple of signature strengths that are the same we both have ingenuity and valor the differance between us is that I have the two strengths that she should of used which are citizenship and apreciation it whould of made her life a lot happier. In the end precious gained a very important strength she gained apreciation. Now her life will be a lot happier she wont go thruogh that terrible time ever again.
