I really loved this book, GREAT choice Rachel. I have to say that i liked all the characters except for Miss Hilly, it is people like her that keep gossip and hate going. I loved Minny and Aibleen and Celia the most. I loved Minny because she was feisty and by the end of the book i feel she truly cared for Miss Celia. Minny became alittle more softer, she even helped Skeeter with her book. I Loved Aibleen because she loved Mae Mobley and her brother so much. She was very easy going and took a great risk with helping Skeeter with the book and in the end she lost her job but at the same time she gained something better and not just with a job. I really loved Minny and Celia story, I felt sorry for Celia and she needed and depended on Minny and by the end of the book i really feel like they truly cared for each other.
2. Life has changed dramatically since the times in which this book is set. What part of 1960s life in Mississippi do you find most shocking? I truly don't understand why white people in the 60's had a problem using the same bathrooms as a black person. or have a problem eating at the same places or be friends with black people, or going to school with them. I don't understand why white people looked down on black people. Why did White people have such a hatred towards black people. Is the hatred there because Lincoln freed the slaves? and white think we should still have slavery even in the 60's? If so, slavery was so long ago and by the 60's i would have thought that white people would feel that slavery was wrong and black people are people with feelings, and love and we should embrace them because our ancestors did a wrong thing. Something that made me think long and hard that the book made loud and clear was how afraid black people were and how the book made me understand why they had that fear and how sad that they had to live in so much fear, i don't think i truly understood there fear until i read this book.
3. How much of a person’s character would you say is shaped by the times in which they live?
Alot actually because i see that same thing with me and Mary. Times are so very different now vs the 60's although we still have deep seeded feelings in the South, especially the deep South, but it is not as bad as it was in the 60's. When a person is around events that happen or around how people are treated that is what shapes our character for example.....I was not born in the south so growing up i did not see the hatred towards black people so i have no problems with them, i like them. But now that i live in the south i see and hear how people think of black people and treat black people and feel we have a ways to go. I have also seen the attitude being passed from parent to child as well.
4. What did you think about Minny’s pie for Miss Hilly? Would you have gone as far as Minny did for revenge? I thought the pie was funny and i was glad she did it. Miss Hilly was not a nice person to anyone but especially to black people, she deserved it. Yes i would have done it.
5. How did you feel about the ending?
It made me mad and sad. Miss Hilly was so mean to get Ailbleen fired, it was so mean spirted and what really made me mad was she had the nerve to tell (bully) someone into firing her. It made me sad because Miss Leefolt listened to Miss Hilly but i felt like she really did not want to fire her, she needed her but that Miss Hilly bullied her into it because of the times, she had to because Hilly had the voice and the power over people, I was hoping Miss Leefolt would say NO I am not going to fire her i need her and you have no business telling me to get rid of her. But maybe change was necessary for Aibleen and taking Skeeters job was not such a bad change after all.
6. Would you recommend this novel to a friend? I was only on Chapter 10 and i was telling my gym friends to read it, that is a really great book and how much i was enjoying it. I really want to see the movie now.
3. How much of a person’s character would you say is shaped by the times in which they live?
Alot actually because i see that same thing with me and Mary. Times are so very different now vs the 60's although we still have deep seeded feelings in the South, especially the deep South, but it is not as bad as it was in the 60's. When a person is around events that happen or around how people are treated that is what shapes our character for example.....I was not born in the south so growing up i did not see the hatred towards black people so i have no problems with them, i like them. But now that i live in the south i see and hear how people think of black people and treat black people and feel we have a ways to go. I have also seen the attitude being passed from parent to child as well.
4. What did you think about Minny’s pie for Miss Hilly? Would you have gone as far as Minny did for revenge? I thought the pie was funny and i was glad she did it. Miss Hilly was not a nice person to anyone but especially to black people, she deserved it. Yes i would have done it.
5. How did you feel about the ending?
It made me mad and sad. Miss Hilly was so mean to get Ailbleen fired, it was so mean spirted and what really made me mad was she had the nerve to tell (bully) someone into firing her. It made me sad because Miss Leefolt listened to Miss Hilly but i felt like she really did not want to fire her, she needed her but that Miss Hilly bullied her into it because of the times, she had to because Hilly had the voice and the power over people, I was hoping Miss Leefolt would say NO I am not going to fire her i need her and you have no business telling me to get rid of her. But maybe change was necessary for Aibleen and taking Skeeters job was not such a bad change after all.
6. Would you recommend this novel to a friend? I was only on Chapter 10 and i was telling my gym friends to read it, that is a really great book and how much i was enjoying it. I really want to see the movie now.
I really enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to everyone. This book really made me think about how bad those times were and how much fear they had and how there fear was understandable and how the 60's had small changes with blacks and whites and how those small changes eventually turned into bigger changes. Thanks Rachel for picking this book!
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