"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
All I can think of is how we like to think fifty years later that the attitudes and racism are historical fiction. It's disturbing to recall living in small town PA a decade ago. There was a storeowner who was a biracial woman, a professor from the local university who was openly lesbian. Both for reasons they were two fearful to discuss moved out of town within a year of each other. The college still maintained a morality clause about such things.
Trucks with huge prints of mauled looking fetuses would park in the town square to make their statement about pro-life. GLBT books and even textbooks about women's rights were kept in the back darkened storage area of the town bookshop. The town police, even the supermarket manager and school principals all ruled with iron fists. The largest faction of the KKK is the Northern states was a town away...They probably banned this book coming over state lines.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Loveabull wrote:I'm still reading this, want to see the movie eventually. What a terrific book! In a nutshell with no spoilers...It's about a group of maids and the families they work for. It's the early 1960's, significant because it's just the dawn of civil rights, women's rights, Roe vs. Wade, the pill...this however is Mississippi...some of the characters are still living in the philosophy of " Segregation now and segregation always", others see the new era coming and are still bewildered. Much of the tension of the novel centers on keeping secrets from the more radical characters.
All I can think of is how we like to think fifty years later that the attitudes and racism are historical fiction. It's disturbing to recall living in small town PA a decade ago. There was a storeowner who was a biracial woman, a professor from the local university who was openly lesbian. Both for reasons they were two fearful to discuss moved out of town within a year of each other. The college still maintained a morality clause about such things.
Trucks with huge prints of mauled looking fetuses would park in the town square to make their statement about pro-life. GLBT books and even textbooks about women's rights were kept in the back darkened storage area of the town bookshop. The town police, even the supermarket manager and school principals all ruled with iron fists. The largest faction of the KKK is the Northern states was a town away...They probably banned this book coming over state lines.
All the above and yet in just a few decades our wonderful country voted for a Black president...
Read the book, loved it!...my daughter had put it on my Kindle as a surprise gift...haven't seen the movie yet...looking forward to it !
Carpe Diem!
Suzy...
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I highly recommend both book and movie.
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Probably the same folks who deny the Holocaust too...Aussie-reader wrote:I've read the book and seen the movie - and read some interesting 'denial' posts in the media about how we were not really racist down here in the South by people living there.
I highly recommend both book and movie.
Excellent book, I just finished it...amazingly well done for her first book!
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I actually quote the main character once in a while to my kids, "You is kind, you is smart, you is impotant"
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