{"id":676,"date":"2010-05-09T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:51:06","slug":"the-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"The Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kathryn Stockett, 2009, Amy Einhorn Books,\u00c2\u00a0published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York<\/p>\n

This book is really a great read.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s basically about black maids in Jackson Mississippi back in the\u00c2\u00a0late 60’s and early 70’s\u00c2\u00a0and how it was working for white families.\u00c2\u00a0 The book captures these situations well and the characters are well developed.\u00c2\u00a0 The only negative I can think of regarding this book is the somewhat unsatisfying ending.<\/p>\n

As I read the book I sometimes felt that the foremost racist “villian”, Hilly, was somewhat unbelievable.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I thought of some of the persons and situations I had observed when I was a kid during that time, and she became much more real.\u00c2\u00a0 Just recently I watched a PBS documentary regarding the civil rights movement in Mississippi.\u00c2\u00a0 I was struck by the faces of some of the whites throwing rocks and yelling at the blacks who were marching, participating in lunch counter sit-ins, or trying to enter all-white schools.\u00c2\u00a0 The sheer hatred evidenced in their contorted faces was a vivid reminder of the intensity of their racist feelings at that time.\u00c2\u00a0 Hilly instantly became much more real to me.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder, however, if some of the younger generations can generate the same feelings and understanding that I was able to muster.<\/p>\n

Maybe the less than satisfying ending provides the\u00c2\u00a0stage for a sequel?\"4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kathryn Stockett, 2009, Amy Einhorn Books,\u00c2\u00a0published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York This book is really a great read.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s basically about black maids in Jackson Mississippi back in the\u00c2\u00a0late 60’s and early 70’s\u00c2\u00a0and how it was working for …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}