MY HONEST REVIEW OF THE BOOK -THE HELP BY KATHYRN STOCKETT.

HELLO! Readers, I hope this review helps and if you have already read the book then I would be more than happy to discuss it in the comments section:)

It's one of my recent reads. And, I can say that it's one of the best books I have read so far, this year. It was an important read for me.

I was aware of the racial discrimination against blacks in America. But, honestly, I did not know much about their history and their lives at that time. 

I was completely shocked after reading about the kind of oppression they went through. I was so ashamed of myself for not knowing this before. Racial discrimination against them still exists. We all are aware of what happened with George Floyd.

 

It's so heartbreaking and sad that they are suffering for so long and it hasn't come to an end even now.

 The Help is the story of three women, Aibleen, Minny, and Miss Skeeter. It's an account of how these women became friends. Aibleen and Minny are black and helps in white houses, while Miss Skeeter is a white, graduate, and single, unlike her friends. Skeeter wants to know why her maid has left her home while she was away.

Aibleen has her struggles raising a white child and living alone because of her son's tr

agic death. Minny is bold and outspoken and I think she also has a story similar to a lot of women around the world.

But, all of them have one thing in common and that is courage. 

The book also depicts the relation between black help and white children and how the help teaches takes care of and raise them as their own(while they tend to forget them as soon as they grow up). White women are shown as poor moms, who do not pay much attention to their children. (that's of course not true for every white woman). I think that's why it's one of the most controversial books.

Kathryn did an amazing job of depicting the humane connection between whites and blacks. She mentions in the acknowledgment this line saying this was pretty much the point of the book for women to realize that~ " We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not as much as I thought "

I overall found the book a well balanced and an amazing read. Loved it a little more because of the strong female characters.