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AUTHOR: Stockett, Kathryn
TITLE: The Help
DATE READ: 04/05/11
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: Fiction/2009/Putnam/444 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: SA
TIME/PLACE: 1960's/MS
CHARACTERS: Skeeter/college grad, desires to be a writer; Aibileen; maid to one of Skeeter's friends; Minny/Aibleen's best friend
FIRST LINES: Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960.
COMMENTS: Very good southern fiction set in the 60's/ civil rights era. Skeeter writes a book in secret -- she takes ...more
TITLE: The Help
DATE READ: 04/05/11
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: Fiction/2009/Putnam/444 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: SA
TIME/PLACE: 1960's/MS
CHARACTERS: Skeeter/college grad, desires to be a writer; Aibileen; maid to one of Skeeter's friends; Minny/Aibleen's best friend
FIRST LINES: Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960.
COMMENTS: Very good southern fiction set in the 60's/ civil rights era. Skeeter writes a book in secret -- she takes ...more
This book surprised me. I thought it was chicklit (vapid writing, mostly about relationships with men, and wardrobes replacing real personalities). I think I dragged my feet on it for the first one hundred pages, but then I got engrossed as I dreaded what could happen to the black women in this book in the 1960s American South.
However, the book is ultimately about women finding their mission in life and working towards that mission.
However, the book is ultimately about women finding their mission in life and working towards that mission.
Loved it. Even the parts that were uncomfortable to read because it was historically accurate, I loved. I can't imagine trying to write something like it when there is no way to research the innermost thoughts and feelings of a time so controversial. Kathryn Stockett does a great job showing the love-hate relationship between people who are so seemingly different. One of my favorite lines is the revelation that Miss Skeeter has after talking with Miss Lou Ann next to the shampoos. (I don't want
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Like going home to the sixties with the issues of Black poverty, segregation, civil rights and the hurtful snobbery of the white elite.
Jan 17, 2015
Scott Flicker
marked it as to-read
