Reading Reflection #3

So, this is my third reading reflection about "The Help". I have finished reading this book. I thought it was boring in some parts and exciting in others.  It was boring because I believe the author dragged parts too long over many chapters. I learned many things about what life was like in the early 1960’s. I know that poor black people were used as maids for rich white people but I didn’t know that they pretty much raised the white children while their parents did what ever they wanted.  I think it was gross that one of the mothers let her daughter in dirty diapers until the maid came back the next morning. I think it was brave of Skeeter to brake the divide between the white and the black. Skeeter wanted the black to have a voice and she got those voices heard eventually. The white rich folk built “out houses” for the help so that they didn’t share the same bathroom with the maids. I think this is wrong because the black people didn’t have “a disease” like the white said. When Skeeter sent her resume to that writer and got a reply back saying that she needs more work before going any further, I think that person could have gave Skeeter some tips on how to do this instead of just putting her. I was glad that Skeeter got a job with the local paper. It was gross when Minney gave Hilly her “special pie” but to be honest, Hilly had it coming.

I give this book a 2/5 for starts.