Reading log 5

Reading log 5

The Help/Novel

The help in a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about African Americans working i white households in Jackson Mississippi during the early 1960s. This novel was Stocketts first book which took her 5 years to write and was rejected over 60 times until someone accepted it. has since been published in over 35 countries in the world and in three different languages. in August 2011 over seven million copies were sold and spent over 100 week on the NY time best selling list.

This movie is set in the early 1960s Jackson Mississippi told from 3 peoples perspective Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson and Eugenia "Skeeter." Aibileen was a maid who clean and looks after children  he first job since her son died from an accident on the job, and works in a white household where she looks after their toddler Mae Mobley. Minny was Aibileen friend who often tells her employees about what she thought, this resulted in her being fired 19 times. Skeeter is the daughter of a white family who live on a cotton farm just outside of Jackson Mississippi. skeeter just graduated from the university of Mississippi and wanted to become a writer. Skeeter was always curious of Constantine's disappearance, her maid that brought Skeeter up and cared for her. Skeeter never believed she would leave just like that no goodbye nothing, her mum would always tell her that the maid quit and went to go live with family in Chicago. Skeeter finally found out the truth about Constantine's disappearance eventually her mum told her that she fired her because she no longer wanted her to work there.

Skeeter then gains the trust of Aibileen through a friendship which develops when Aibileen helps Skeeter write a household column tip for the local news papers. Skeet agreed as it would help her get closer to becoming a writer. The Harper and row that asked for the household column tips eventually started paying Aibileen for her time. when Aibileen and minny finally agreed to tell their stories, they are both unable to get other black woman to tell their stories too. Skeeter researches the rights the the black woman have and dont have in Mississippi.Yule may is then arrested from stealing a ring from Hilly's home to pay for her two sons to go the college until Hilly refused.the other maid decided that they were willing to take a chance with their jobs and their safety, and join the book project.Together they wrote a book about their experiences as the 'help' to the white woman of Jackson Mississippi. not all of the stories were all negative some beautiful and generous, loving and kind events, while others are cruel and even brutal.  

As a teenager this made me feel quite upset and angry that the white people would treat the black people the way they did in those days it just shows how cold hearted and selfish those people were and that all they care about is themselves for example blacks had separate toilets separate neighborhoods and weren't allowed to eat at the same table as the white people.

Blacks had the same equal rights as the whites did. for example Aibileen and Minny decided if they voiced their opinion about how they got treated and felt about they way they got talked to by the white people. Blacks should be able to have flash houses with the whites cooking, cleaning and caring for their kids, for example blacks had full responsibility for cook cleaning and caring for the younger children while the white people went out for lunch while withe whites would be out doing what ever the could do to fill in the time, as a result of constantine taking care of skeeter when she was younger felt that she was the one that brought her up not her mum. in this movie i don't think that the whites realized if they put their feet in their shoes they wouldn't like it. for example when Aibileen got accused for stealing some silver kitchenware she was instantly fired from her job and never returned to work for them again