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Haper Lee's classic novel 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' has changed lives. It's direct descendent 'The Help' has the same potential. Aibileen is one of the most attractive characters one encounters in fiction. ( ) Beautiful, satisfying story with rich characters. I cried just five minutes into the audiobook, then cried another 10 times at least before the end. The Help is going on my list of favorite books. That being said, The Help should not be treated as an accurate portrayal of the black experience in America. I know lots of people are interested in reading more about race/racism right now - this book won't serve that purpose. The author is white, after all. And it's a piece of fiction which does not claim to be historically accurate. But I promise it's still 100% worth the read. This was a really good book, as far as explaining what life was like for "colored" women in the 1960s Mississippi. However, I would have liked to feel more fear--there is a happy ending, too much so, that I think was written because that's what the reader would have wanted. It's not the true-to-lifeness that Stockett tries to portray; no hopelessness, no terrifying sense of everything closing in on you. The women from whose point of view this book takes are not in horribly bad situations. No, they are not treated equally, but they are in households where they are not abused physically or verbally--they are either ignored or taken advantage of. Had Stockett taken the viewpoint of one of the other maids who lend their voice to the book written by Skeeter and Aibileen, in addition to Aibileen and Minny, this book might have produced the feeling of fear and terror. As it is, we see some of the actions taken by "coloreds" after the blinding beating of a black man after he accidentally uses a white bathroom and the death or Medgar Evers, but we never see it truly affect the two maids, who knew the families but only think about what happened when something else bad happens--which really isn't often. Otherwise, I really enjoyed Stockett's writing style and the detail she put in describing the homes the maids worked in and their relationships with their employers. I would love to read a sequel to this to find out what happens to Aibileen and Mae Mobley, Minnie and Miss Celia, and especially Skeeter and Hilly.
This is fun stuff, well-written and often applause-worthy. My only problem with The Help is that, in the end, it’s not really about the help. I finished The Help in one sitting and enjoyed it very, very much. It’s wise, literate, and ultimately deeply moving, a careful, heartbreaking novel of race and family that digs a lot deeper than most novels on such subjects do. As black-white race relations go, this could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird... If you read only one book this summer, let this be it. “Mississippi is like my mother,” [Stockett] writes in an afterword to “The Help.” And you will see, after your wrestling match with this problematic but ultimately winning novel, that when it comes to the love-hate familial bond between Ms. Stockett and her subject matter, she’s telling the truth. Her pitch-perfect depiction of a country's gradual path toward integration will pull readers into a compelling story that doubles as a portrait of a country struggling with racial issues. Tem a adaptaçãoÉ resumida emTem como guia de referência/texto acompanhanteTem um comentário sobre o textoTem um guia de estudo para estudantesPrêmiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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