The Help

Hey everyone, guess what?! I finished reading the Help! So, this blog will be what I thought about the book and a quick summary.
To start it off I will tell you about what the book is about. It dated in the 1960's and is about slavery. I would typically not even think about reading this book because I don't like reading historical books if I don't have to but this book was very good. The narrator switches throughout the book between 2 maids and one white woman. This way you get a peak of each of their lives as the book progresses. The first maid's name is Abileen, she is a quiet, older woman that is very experienced in being a maid. Her best friend Minny is the other maid, she is very out spoken. Minny says what is on her mind and sometimes that can be a bad thing. The other narrator is Miss. Skeeter who is a young white woman trying to figure out who she is. Miss. Skeeter decides to write a book about what life is like for maids, calling it the Help. The book is about their them writing the book and trying to survive in this time period. I don't want to tell you much more than that because I don't want to ruin the book if you haven't read it yet.
I thought that the book was very good. I found myself staying up at night reading it to see what would happen. I'am excited to see the movie because I liked the book so much. I thought that the way that the book was written made you understand both sides of the conflicts. It also showed how bad things were back then for slaves. It was crazy to see how they were treated by the white women who stayed around their house all day doing nothing while the maids were doing all of their work. I couldn't imagine having to do that or being the person sitting around watching someone else do all of that work. One of the women that the maids has to take care of ends up raising her kids more than the Mom does. This book was kind of eye opening because you always hear about the slaves that were on the plantations and working in the fields but not as much as the maids. I thought that they did a really good job with making it interesting and fun to read for anyone, not just history fans.
I don't know if I have already told you this but I like books and movies that are sort of emotinal and that is exactly what this book had. When I say that I really mean a book or movie that is so good that you can relate to it or you feel the pain that the characters are feeling. This book almost had me crying but I managed to get through it. The whole topic of this book is a rather sad thing because of the way that things happend in that time period compared to today.
Anyway, if you haven't read this book yet I would highly recomend it for you even if you are a little skeptical. Let me know if you decide to read it and what your thoughts are. Thanks for reading :)