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“The Help” is a novel well-deserving of the praise that’s been heaped upon it, praise that has made its 40-year old author Kathryn Stockett a household name. Its slow but steady success from the time it hit bookshelves in February of 2009 probably came as a great surprise to the author after 45 initial rejections from literary agents. To her exponentially growing readership, it will come as an even greater surprise that “The Help” is her first novel, a novel which to this day is holding at #2 after 54 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Fiction and has 2 million copies currently in print. Only a handful of first-time authors have bragging rights of that magnitude.
The story is told from three different viewpoints: Aibileen, an aging and seasoned black housemaid coping with the death of her son; Minny, a young black housemaid known for her brashness; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a white woman aspiring to be a journalist. It is the early 1960’s and all are residents of Jackson, Mississippi, the lion’s den of racial divide. Stockett takes us deep into the cultivated jungle of thought of her hometown: the beauty, the pride, the shame, the ignorance and the injustice, all coupled with the riveting backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement.
Aibileen has worked for many families over the years, but the Leefolts seem to be the ones who test her patience the most, Elizabeth in particular. Spurned by whisperings of demonstrations and Elizabeth’s neglect of her 2-year old daughter Mae Mobley, Aibileen projects her deepest maternal instincts onto the girl in order to supplement the love she deserves, cope with the frustration she feels towards her employer and the agony of losing her own child.
Whereas Aibileen holds her tongue for fear and caution, her good friend Minny is a bluntly truthful woman that disguises the pain of an abusive husband with a clout that shocks her white employers. Along with the physical weight she hefts around is a sizeab
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