THE HELP
Talking about the simply amazing book THE HELP, hooked me completely from the very first chapter of this novel. It is the debut novel by Kathryn Stockett. THE HELP tells us so many stories through the eyes of 3 memorable women. I was all stayed up reading whole night as I wanted to know what was going to happen next and so on.
The story is about three ordinary women who are just about to take one important step. Here the 22 year old girl name Skeeter has just returned home after her graduation from Ole Miss. It is 1962, Mississippi though she is having a degree and her mother will not be happy until she has a ring on her finger. She normally finds more comfortable with her beloved Constantine, the woman who raised her. But now Constantine has left and disappeared. Also nobody would tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Another character Aibileen, who is a black maid and is a wise, royal women raising her 17th white child. After when she lost her son, who died; something was just shifted inside her. She was a dedicated herself for raising the children of white families.
Also Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short and fat and possibly the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but one thing is that she can never mind her tong, and so she has lost another job. But then finally she finds a position of working for someone who is too new to the town to know about her. But this new boss has secrets of her own!
These women seems much different from one another but nevertheless they come together or a clandestine project which would put them in a risk just as they are suffocating within the lines, which define their own times and towns. But sometimes lines are made only to be crossed.
The voices are perfect pitch; though it deals with the serious topic there is humor and lessens to be learned.
