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The Help: Movie vs. Book

India

I already did a post talking about The Help and what the book is about, but this is one is to compare the movie and the book.

Once again I read the book before I went to the movie, but this time with a bit more separation in between. I think that the makers of The Help the movie did a very good job of staying close to the book without it changing a lot of other notions.
The only complaint that I had with the movie was that it took out some of the hard core matters that dealt with the African American community, like the murders, or Louvenia’s grandson, but most importantly with Constantine’s daughter. In the movie they made her black. That was a huge story in the book of how Constantine’s daughter was born with white skin, and that’s why she had to be sent away to Chicago. It was then her arrival to the Flinn’s house where she confused everyone into thinking she was white was how Constantine lost her job. Of course all of that was in a nutshell, but in the book it is a pretty big deal, and it was a constant question on Skeeter’s mind of why Constantine was fired, or quit, as put by her mother.
I was overall pleased with the movie, but it was just that giant miswrite that to me made it not an amazing movie, and one to truly rant and rave about. Until next time,
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Book Reviews, Uncategorized

The Help, Kathryn Stockett

India

The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a novel that can be eye opener to some. In The Help a young woman, Skeeter, decides that she is tired of what happens in Jackson, Mississippi to the help and to all the black people in her area. To stir things up she decides to write a book called, The Help, to show life from the point of view of the help. In order to do that she first had to find women who were willing to put their lives on the line to tell their stories about those who employ them. Not only did it affect the lives of the black women, but also alienated Skeeter from her friends, and the only man she ever had a relationship with. Writing the book brought out the courage in each of them and gave all of these women a purpose.

I highly recommend reading The Help. This story makes you laugh, cry, smile and feel invested in each one of the characters lives. The story is written so that different chapters are written from the perspective of different people, Skeeter, Minny, and Aibileen. The main controversy that I have heard about this novel is that it is written by a white woman, and some people in the black community don’t always like when someone tries to show how life was for the black community. Sometimes there is a lot of sugar coating and making it seem like the black community was okay with what was happening during that time. Other than that I personally loved the book and would most definitely recommend it to others. Until next time

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