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Stockett , Kathryn. The Help. New York: Penguin Group, 2011.
Upon reading this book, I had read many reviews before reading it much less watching
the movie since I am a pretty firm believer in reading a book before watching a movie even
if 90% of the time the book always prevails, in which this one did, but I still enjoyed both.
The book had an excellent story line that kept you wanting to read more and as I read
more and more of it I gathered a sense of laughter, tears, and, slight heartbreak. The book
did a really good job of explaining each persons main character with having a good sense
of who they were as if I had known them in real life. All in all, I am very happy I took the
time to read this fictional 464 page book. Although I have my disagreements with some
of the context I truly enjoy a good eye opener on an idea of how things were and how
we have grown into a much different society today.
There are three main characters. Minnie, a bold house maid who isnt afraid to talk
back to anyone, except her abusive husband. There is Skeeter, a young, awkward college
student who just wants to be a writer, but her mother wants her to get married. Aibileen is
an wise, older maid who lost her only son a few years ago, and now she has become very
close to the little white girl she takes care of, but it is a very fragile bond now that she is
going behind her employers back. Skeeter interviews the three women about what its
really like to be a maid in Jackson, Mississippi. but the book is very risky, and if they were
ever found out, they would all be in danger. It is told in alternating viewpoints from the
three main characters, so we get to see from both sides of the story in this book; from the
League ladies such as the truly venomous Miss Hilly, to the maids who work for them and
basically raise their children single handedly.
I think this book should be allowed in a library of any sort as well as taught by any