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.