The Help

I am currently reading The Help written by Kathryn Stockett.  I'm not quite finished... in fact, I have quite a bit left of the book left to read (I need to get my butt in gear and start to read more often!).  This book takes place in Mississippi during the 60s.  Think to American History - we are about to learn about the Civil War and events that took place during that time.  Although the 1960s are obviously much different than our country's Civil War era, it took the African American community a lot of time and hard work (literally blood, sweat, & tears) to get where they are today. Throughout the U.S., things were starting to look better, but Mississippi had the worst of everything. The maids and other African Americans live in fear of Whites daily, even though they must work for them in order to survive.  In other words, Whites had tendencies to live in sheltered areas, not looking at the points of view of others.  This is a great book for looking into the perspectives of African Americans during a hard time in history.

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--I'm awful at summarizing books, so it will be interesting to see how much I improve as this goes on.