The Help by Kathryn Stockett: A Review

This book is beautiful. It's painful and it's sad. And it's beautiful.

There's not much that I can say that hasn't been said about the book. It allows you to stare discrimination in the eye and it makes you wonder if you have been guilty of discrimination as well. The book goes back and forth between Minny, Abileen and Skeeter's point of view and the flow of the chapters were so fluid that when one point of view ended, you couldn't wait to plow through the next just so that you'll know what will happen to that character.

Then again, the act of plowing through doesn't carry that much negative connotation since you'll end up truly caring for all the characters in the book itself. You can't help but to narrate the book in Southern accent (or as Southern as you can be) and you'll feel for every emotion that they feel.

And how can you not fall for Mae Mobley? That little girl, despite her supporting role, will break your heart.

The book ends in a way whereby you do not need to be patronised by being told by the author about what will happen to the characters. Instead, how you want them to turn out depends fully on how you see the world. It's a book that makes you think and a book that makes you reflect.

It's a book that makes you realize that the more you think of yourself as a 'better' person, the uglier you really are inside.