The Help

1st book of the year: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. On the first few pages, I almost put the novel down and find another because I felt like reading a trash since the language was kind of hard to understand. However, I forced myself reading more from this book. I started to familiarize with the African American's slang and imagining how the people talk in tv while reading Aibileen's and Minny's chapters. Then it was hard to put it down. Thus, I managed to finish up reading this 444-page book in a month when it usually took me more than that to finish up a novel.

It was a story of how African American people, especially the helps, were treated in 1960s in Jackson, Mississipi. The story went around from the perspective of two characters of the helps, Aibileen, a motherly and calm person and Minny, sassy and a great cook; another character is a white woman, Skeeter, who wanted to make a change by writing the story about Aibileen and her friends. Every character is explained vividly in this book, and I could laugh my heart out or cry for some parts.

There's a film based on this book that scooped 3 awards at the Oscar and I'm sure looking forward to watch it.