{"id":1321,"date":"2010-07-10T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:06:45","slug":"the-help-by-kathryn-stockett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"The Help by Kathryn Stockett"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just finished reading The Help. It is set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960’s and is about the often cruel relationships between white middle class housewives and their maids “the help.” “Skeeter” a daughter of one of the housewives comes home with a degree from Ole Miss and finds out that Constantine, the family maid and lady who raised her as a baby, is gone and Skeeter’s mother refuses to talk about it and won’t even say where Constantine went.<\/p>\n

This gets Skeeter thinking about the maids and their relationship to the families and begins to see with new eyes the help’s predicament. She has an idea to write a book about the stories the maids could tell. Writing such a book is a dangerous thing to do in the Mississippi back then. The novel then goes on to describe the efforts f Skeeter and the maids to solicit other women to tell their stories and get the book published.<\/p>\n

Despite my lackluster synopsis above, I found the book very compelling and interesting. The stories ring true and the book is very even handed, given the situation. I fell in love with the characters.<\/p>\n

I give it four stars out of four. It’s a great book.<\/p>\n

Check out Kathryn Stockett’s web page<\/a>. Apparently they are going to make a movie out of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading The Help. It is set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960’s and is about the often cruel relationships between white middle class housewives and their maids “the help.” “Skeeter” a daughter of one of the housewives comes home with a degree from Ole Miss and finds out that Constantine, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}