The Help

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women 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.Minny, Aibileen s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi She can cook like nobody s business, but she can t mind her tongue, so she s lost yet another job Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation But her new boss has secrets of her own.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.In pitch perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends view one another A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don t. Free Download [ The Help ] Author [ Kathryn Stockett ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I have this terrible, dreary feeling in my diaphragm area this morning, and I m not positive what it s about, but I blame some of it on this book, which I am not going to finish I have a friend who is mad at me right now for liking stupid stuff, but the thing is that I do like stupid stuff sometimes, and I think it would be really boring to only like smart things What I don t like is when smart or even middle brained writers take an important topic and make it petty through guessing about wh I have this terrible, dreary feeling in my diaphragm area this morning, and I m not positive what it s about, but I blame some of it on this book, which I am not going to finish I have a friend who is mad at me right now for liking stupid stuff, but the thing is that I do like stupid stuff sometimes, and I think it would be really boring to only like smart t...I was uncomfortable with the tone of the book I felt that the author played to very stereotypical themes, and gave the characters especially the African American ones very inappropriate and obvious voices and structure in terms constructing their mental character I understand that the author wrote much of this as a result of her experiences growing up in the south in the 1960 s, and that it may seem authentic to her, and that she was even trying to be...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I read the first paragraph of The Help, absorbing the words, but suddenly being caught off guard by the dialect I stopped reading.I shifted the book in my hands, flipping to the author s biography and photograph on the back of the dust jacket Staring up at me was this image error Oh, sweet Jesus, I thought An affluent, white Manhattanite Great. And one who apparently fancies herself a master at Southern Black Vernacular Even better.I rolled my eyes and returned to page one, fully prepared I read the first paragraph of The Help, absorbing the words, but suddenly being caught off guard by the dialect I stopped reading.I shifted the book in my hands, flipping to the author s biography and photograph on the back of the dust jacket Staring up at me was this image error Oh, sweet Jesus, I thought An affluent, white Manhattanite Great. And one who apparently fancies herself a master at Southern Black Vernacular Even better.I rolled my eyes and returned to page one, fully prepared to hate every word on every page, beginning with Aibileen s horrifically stereotyped voice written by this smug White Lady Look, I really don t subscribe to the belief that one must be a part of a culture in order to write effectively or even stirringly about or in the voice of that culture Wally ...Here is an illustrative tale of what it was like to be a black maid during the civil rights movement of the 1960s in racially conflicted Mississippi There is such deep history in the black white relationship and this story beautifully shows the complex spectrum, not only the hate, abuse, mistrust, but the love, attachment, dependence Stockett includes this quote by Howell Raines in her personal except at the end of the novel There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that o Here is an illustrative tale of what it was like to be a black maid during the civil rights movement of the 1960s in racially conflicted Mississippi There is such deep history in the black white relationship and this story beautifully shows the complex spectrum, not only the hate, abuse, mistrust, but the love, attachment, dependence Stockett includes this quote by Howell Raines in her personal except at the end of the novel Ther...The Kindle DX I ordered is galloping to the rescue today AND, for all the book purists which would include me , this is a need, rather than a want Post several eye surgeries, I m just plain sick of struggling to read the words on a page.However, despite the visual challenges, I read all 451 pages of The Help yesterday Clearly, the book held my interest However, I spent last night pondering why the book wasn t as good as my nonstop reading would indicate What was wrongMost of all, I thin The Kindle DX I ordered is galloping to the rescue today AND, for all the book purists which would include me , this is a need, rather than a want Post several eye surgeries, I m just plain sick of struggling to read the words on a page.However, despite the visual challenges, I read all 451 pages of The Help yesterday Clearly, the book held my interest However, I spent last night pondering why the book wasn t as good as my nonstop reading would indicate What was wrongMost of all, I think it was the book s ambivalent tone In ...Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today Color me surprised I m not one to read many historical fictions, especially when they don t include any fantasy elements They read like nonfiction, and nonfiction is only good for me if I m in need of sleep B but The Help is different It doesn t only describe the life of housemaids, in the second half of the 20th century, in M Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today Color me surprised I m not one to read many historical fictions, especially when they don t include any fantasy elements They read like nonfiction, and nonfiction is only good for me if I m in need of sleep B but The Help is different It doesn t only describe the life of housemaids, in the second half of the 20th century, in Mississippi it s overflowing with raw emotion It doesn t put every white person in a box and every black person in another It underlines the difference of thought between people, but also how similar we actually all are We all want to live our lives the best way possible and be tr...While it was a well written effort, I didn t find it as breathtaking as the rest of the world Itor less rubbed me the wrong way It reads like the musings of a white woman attempting to have an uncomfortable conversation, without really wanting to be uncomfortable It s incredibly hard to write with integrity about race and be completely honest and vulnerable The author failed to make me believe she was doing anything beyond a show tell And if her intent isn t anything greater, th While it was a well written effort, I didn t find it as breathtaking as the rest of the world Itor less rubbed me the wrong way It reads like the musings of a white woman attempting to have an uncomfortable conversation, without really wanting to be uncomfortable It s incredibly hard to write with integrity about race and be completely honest and vulnerable The author failed to m...enthusiasm this book and i almost never met and that would have been tragic the fault is mostly mine i mean, the book made no secret of its existence a billion weeks on the best seller list, every third customer asking for it at work, displays and reviews and people on here praising it to the heavens it practically spread its legs for me, but i just kept walking i figured it was something for the ladies, like sex and the city, which i don t have to have ever seen an episode of to know enthusiasm this book and i almost never met and that would have been tragic the fault is mostly mine i mean, the book made no secret of its existence a billion weeks on the best seller list, every third customer asking for it at work, displays and reviews and people on here praising it to the heavens it practically spread its legs for me, but i just kept walking i figured it was something for the ladies, like sex and the city, which i don t have to have ever seen an episode of to know that it s not something i would enjoy i figured that this book was on the ladder one rung above chick lit so i am to blame for my snobbish dismissiveness, but have you seen this cover what is with that sickroom co...We are just two people Not that much separates us Not nearly as much as I d thought My favourite book next to Harry Potter This novel did so many things to me.There was lots of cryinghappinesssass tearsand most of all friendship.Read it.Findof my books on InstagramI know what a froat is and how to fix it Aibileen Clark knows how to cure childhood illnesses and how to help a young aspiring writer write a regular household hints column for the local paper But she s struggling mightily to deal with grief over the death of her 20 something son, and she SURE doesn t think conditions will ever improve for African American domestic engineering servants in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi or anywhere else in the South Aibileen s good friend Minny has been a I know what a froat is and how to fix it Aibileen Clark knows how to cure childhood illnesses and how to help a young aspiring writer write a regular household hints column for the local paper But she s struggling mightily to deal with grief over the death of her 20 something son, and she SURE doesn t think conditions will ever improve for African American domestic engineering servants in early 1960s Jackson, Mississippi or anywhere else in the South Aibileen s good friend Minny has been a maid since she was very young, and on the first day of her first job her mother ad...

• English
• 07 March 2017
Kathryn Stockett
• Hardcover
• 444 pages
• 0399155341
• Kathryn Stockett
• The Help