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Interesting re: The Help
Apparently Kathryn Stockett was "inspired" by her brother's family's nanny.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/lawsuit-black-maid-ablene-cooper-sues-author-kathryn/story?id=12968562
Re: Interesting re: The Help
I really disliked the tone and message of the help, this blog helps articulate a lot of points that many reader of it found troubling.
acriticalreviewofthehelp.wordp?ress.com
Genuinely curious, what did you interpret the tone and message of the Help to be that rubbed you the wrong way?
Ditto Jessh
The blog says it all much better than I could. But when reading it I didnt like that it was another book about whites helping out blacks. Felt a little too 'damsel in distress'
White privilege is well documented but the really glossed over too much reality for my likely. It painted the blacks very negatively and used comedy to soften the blow of such terrible times. I didnt think the toilet part or the *** pie part was realistic or even that funny. It distracted from the real terrible things that were going on.
I love the books of Zora Neale Hurston or Toni Morrison which even have ghosts in them but feel more genuine than this one.
1. It's always sketchy and risky when a white woman chooses to write as first person in a black vernacular.
2. The story is very much about a bored and unfocused white woman swooping in and saving the day for the black maids, which rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
I also ditto JessH.
I like to believe that Stockett didn't write this with any agenda other than entertainment. I think if you make it into more than a fictional story, it becomes too "us vs. them" and can and will rub folks the wrong way on either end of the spectrum.