The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I fell in love with the three main characters. Through their eyes, I saw the difficulty each had to face in their station as women in the segregated world. Their challenges are not only that of race, but also of age. Each had a role in live because of their age, their marital status, and their skin color.
Before reading The Help, I had an inkling of the relations between blacks and white in the South during the Civil Rights movement, mostly from newsreels and history books. Ms. Stockett's characters gave life and meaning to the flickering images and faded photographs that identified that era with vivid impact.



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