The help (edition 2009)

Ok. didn't really ring true with me. ( )

Well great. I waited too long to review this and now I can't recall what I had wanted to say about it. I remember that I loved it, I remember that I didn't want to put it down and enjoyed every second of it... But I can't remember why. I also remember that after reading it I watched the movie and found that to be extremely disappointing.. That's about it. I'll just skip to the bottom line of what I remember. This is far from fast paced, but it never felt slow to me. It's entirely character driven so if that's not your thing then you should probably skip this. Luckily for me that is my thing, hence the book love. Five stars. ( )

I’ve recently been inclined to stories patterned to real life instances. Racism is probably one of the most controversial issues we faced in the history of mankind and are somewhat still facing nowadays in some parts of the globe. Kathryn Stockett did a great job on this. Though I learned that this is her first novel, I’m quite impressed by her gift in producing a sensible story in the horrible cases of racism coupled with learning how to fight and on how to equally treat and love one another amidst the differences.

This is a truly touching story of the intriguing coexistence of two different races in Jackson, Mississippi. Colored people are treated poorly and are experiencing terrible injustice from the whites even with actions not regarded as punishable. It’s just so saddening that people are labeled and judged as “dirty”, “moronic”, “contagious” and “disgusting” JUST BECAUSE of their color or race. It’s very juvenile. While going through this book, I thought that if this really happened during the earlier times, then some white people who supported the racism rule before tend to be narrow-minded-hopeless people. It’s just so wrong for someone to discriminate, punish and judge colored people right away without them knowing these people. They never know, some colored people might be smarter than them or better yet, more good than them whites.

Lives of 3 persons are depicted in the novel. Aibileen - the smart, kind colored helper who first supported Skeeter in writing the book. Minny - The loud and outspoken colored help who is Aibileen’s bestfriend and who later on helped out on the novel. And Skeeter - the white writer who realized the narrowness in the white rules against the colored ones and decided to fight back to help the colored people voice out the horrible discrimination through coming up with a book which shows the different stories of the colored helpers in the hands of the whites - good and bad.

Not all whites were at all bad in the story but the rules against the colored overwhelms everyone that it becomes hard to fight - making the colored more weak in the hands of the society.

This would probably earn five stars for me and I recommend this to everyone for all people to learn and realize the importance of caring for one another and for treating each and every one equally with respect and love.

They came out with a movie based on this novel. I can’t wait to watch it!

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is wonderful book about telling the truth and being able to tell people about things that have happened.The Story takes place in the 1960’s when african american women who maids and that they had to use a bathroom on in the garage.Skeeter the main character decides to interview and write a book about the maids.If you like loyalty and truth this is the book for you.