![]() ![]() Stockett has constructed her characters and their alternating viewpoints with exceptional skill and successfully avoids being too sentimental and mawkish over the still-sensitive issue of racism in the Southern states. ![]() Moreover, watching the film beforehand and knowing how the story ends did not hinder my enjoyment of this excellent book.Īfter tackling ‘Wolf Hall’ last week, ‘The Help’ felt like a breeze to read. Unsurprisingly, the film version is more saccharine than the book but the adaptation was still well done and the plot wasn’t altered too much. I saw the film quite recently and enjoyed it but my mum said she thought the original book was better and lent it to me this week. ![]() Set in the early 1960s during the Civil Rights movement, the maids are expected to look after the children, cook and clean yet they are persecuted because they are ‘colored’. ‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of Skeeter Phelan, a young white woman from Jackson, Mississippi who decides to write a book documenting the experiences of Aibileen, Minny and other black maids who work for white families. ![]()
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