The Help

I am still reading the book the help and it is getting a little bit more complicated but I can still stay with the story line. After chapter 2 the perspective change from Abilene who is the help for a family to Minny who is one of Abilene best friends and is also the help for a different family. The plot twist in the story is that the women who Minny used to work for fired her because Minny had to big of a mouth which I find to be true but what the lady who Minny used to work for spread a rumor that Minny was stealing items from her. Even though the rumor was not true nobody was hiring Minny because they thought she stole things. So Minny had to go out of town to find a job and eventually did with women who had never had a maid before. The lady lived in the middle of now where so the rumor could not get to her. Since this lady had never had a maid before she did not know how to act so unlike all the other employers this lady was very kind to the help which Minny found shocking but liked. The one dilemma was that the lady was not telling her husband that she was employing help because the husband didn’t believe it was necessary to have help when his wife could clean and cook the house. The main reason Minny got hired was to teach the lady how to cook. The spot that I am now in the book is where they are doing their first cooking lesson and it is not going very well. I would say that this book is working for me on many levels. One being that it is very interesting and always keeps me engaged.

The Help

I have been reading the book the help for about a month now and every day I have read it, it has only gotten better. This book is working for me because I love books that get into detail and this book does. As I go further into the book the author gives more and more detail for each character, especially the main character. For example we hear about how rough Aibileen, the main character’s life is, being African American in 1962 where racism was at its peak. Also being the help for a fairly mean family and have had live on her own because her son died a while back. The book also mentions many smaller aspects such as many people believe that all of Abilene prays come true because she has a ritual where every night she writes her daily prays in a book and apparently all of the prays come true. A dilemma that keeps popping out in the book is Abilene has a friend named Missy. Missy is also an African American helper but she specializes in cooking. The down side of Missy is that she has a big mouth and says bad stuff to the people that she helps but in this chapter, the person that missy works for gets tired of Missy being mean to her so she spreads rumors to all of her friends that Missy was stealing stuff from her. Missy got really mad by this but this rumor would still leave her out of work. This book is an amazing book and I really am looking forward to reading further. I will keep you updated as I go along in the book.