Re: The Help (Chapters 5 - 7)

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Stockett has done a great job with these characters. I am
enjoying them all - even the evil Hilly, and the frustrating
Mother. I again found things that made me laugh - the editor
looking at Skeeter's impressive college resume and saying "didn't
you have any fun?" and Mother's reaction when she gets the Miss
Myrna job, "oh the irony of it"

Poor poor Mae Mo - thank goodness that baby has Abilene to love
her. I don't know how Abilene can swallow her pride and take what
she does - there's the real strength in these women - that they
put themselves aside and did what they needed to survive. I
wonder how much of that still has to happen today - the vestiges
of racism that I as a white woman don't even notice?
 

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