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A review by rickwren
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
5.0
The key point of this book, to me, is what happens when people are allowed to systemically treat other people however they want. The answer is that they degrade them, victimize them, and hold power over them for their entire lives. That's what white housewives did to black domestic help throughout the South - both before and after slavery. They'd do it today if allowed.
The story is powerful and I'm not going to recap because that's been done often and better.
It's a book about the abuses of the South, the personal effects of a burgeoning civil rights movement, and about how people exert their authority over others. It's about the most vile side of human nature. It's about the bravery of small actions and about the risk that those actions carry. It's about danger. And, it's about love.
The story is powerful and I'm not going to recap because that's been done often and better.
It's a book about the abuses of the South, the personal effects of a burgeoning civil rights movement, and about how people exert their authority over others. It's about the most vile side of human nature. It's about the bravery of small actions and about the risk that those actions carry. It's about danger. And, it's about love.