The Help 4

I chose to read this book because I saw a preview for the movie. As is one of my rules, you must always (at least try) read the book before seeing the movie!
Kathryn Stockett writes from multiple different perspectives in this book and it made me wonder what type of person I would have been if I had grown up in the south in the mid 1900's. I would like to believe I would have been like Skeeter trying to change the world for the better. This book contain 544 pages.

"Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.


Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed." Synopses from Barnes and Noble.

As stated before this book was made into a movie in 2011. Earned a 76% liking from critics and 90% liking from audience. "The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny-three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk." -Rotten Tomatoes.