The Help

Blog post on independent reading book, Cade Gleekel

The book I have chosen to read for my first independent reading book is the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The general topic of the book is about a young woman named Skeeter, who tries to secretly the true stories of the “help” during a very dangerous age for black people. The “help” are the black woman who serve the white people, in this specific case, in Mississippi. The first two black woman that take the risk to truly tell Skeeter their point of view of working and basically living with white people are two woman named Aibileen and her friend Minny. At the beginning of the book they both work for very racist mean white ladies. At the point I just reached in the book Minny finally found a job outside of the main town, she couldn’t find one in town because she fed her “poop” (which wasn’t the word she used) to her last employer, maybe I will go into more detail about that story next blog post. Now Minny has finally found a job outside of town for a white woman named Miss Celia, who is a little odd. When Minny first arrived at Miss Celia’s house, Miss Celia greeted her with a warm hug, and during lunch she came and sit with Minny. Of course this was quite out of the ordinary for the year 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi.