The Help

I recently read this acclaimed novel by Kathryn Stockett. It was really interesting to be reading it during the same time we are learning about the Civil Rights Movement in Steve's class. The black "help" in this book, mainly Minny and Aibileen, think about civil rights a lot. They think about whether writing a controversial book with Skeeter is safe or not and whether they are willing to take that risk. They talk about Woolworth's lunch counter and the march in D.C. a few times. It was really interesting to learn about all these events taking place (SS class), and what effect they had on the black people living in the south (The Help). It is also interesting to tie it into To Kill a Mockingbird, because the struggle with equality is the same in both books.
This book ended too soon for me to see what the results of their book were, other that seeing Aibileen get fired. I really wish Stockett would write an epilogue so we could know as readers how everything turned out. I am also very interested to learn how Mae Mobley turned out because Aibileen was teaching her "secret stories" where the morals would be about civil rights, and how nobody is different just because they are a different color. For example, one of the most touching incidents in the book, in my view, was when Aibileen tells Mae Mobley about "Martian Luther King", and how nobody was nice to him just because he was green. This tied a lot of ideas together for me because I realize that even though Aibileen could get in serious trouble, she cared enough about the next generation and their rights to risk, well, everything in order to change the ways of just one person.