The Help
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Not an unrealistic period piece, I didn't think. I was very young during the time frame the story was set in but I definitely recognized parts of that era. I was on a plane reading it and had a stewardess ask me if I liked it and she said she'd been told it was a chick book. I didn't really see it that way though I can see how somebody would relate to it that way since all the main characters were women.
Inevitably, somebody will read it and be offended that southerners are portrayed this way...or Ole Miss people...or Southern women...or whatever. I just don't get my hackles up any more about such things. It felt generally realistic to me. It is what it is. The story itself was pretty compelling, I thought, independent of the fact that it's interesting b/c it's "local".
I never read Heart of Dixie but thought the movie was some of the most awful tripe I've ever seen. This book was vastly superior to that movie.
Inevitably, somebody will read it and be offended that southerners are portrayed this way...or Ole Miss people...or Southern women...or whatever. I just don't get my hackles up any more about such things. It felt generally realistic to me. It is what it is. The story itself was pretty compelling, I thought, independent of the fact that it's interesting b/c it's "local".
I never read Heart of Dixie but thought the movie was some of the most awful tripe I've ever seen. This book was vastly superior to that movie.
and politically he is to the left of Obama and Opra. He said he read it, quoted the part about the white folks building on a separate bathroom for "the help.", and said he was "disturbed" by it. I hadn't read the book, but picked it up and showed him the cover. You know, the line that says "a novel." Then I reminded him that we had a once a week "helper" come in, and she used our one bathroom and we didn't think anything about it. Everybody has to use the toilet.
Some terrible things happened in the South, and we all wish they didn't. But getting all worked up about "a novel" is not in my future.
Some terrible things happened in the South, and we all wish they didn't. But getting all worked up about "a novel" is not in my future.
<dl><dd>I wish I was in de land of cotton,</dd><dd>Old times dar am not forgotten;</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd><dd>In Dixie Land whar I was born in,</dd><dd>Early on one frosty mornin,</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>Old Missus marry "Will-de-weaber,"</dd><dd>Willium was a gay deceaber;</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd><dd>But when he put his arm around'er,</dd><dd>He smiled as fierce as a forty-pound'er,</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>Dar's buck-wheat cakes an 'Ingen' batter,</dd><dd>Makes you fat or a little fatter;</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd><dd>Den hoe it down an scratch your grabble,</dd><dd>To Dixie land I'm bound to trabble.</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><span>[</span></dd></dl>
<dl><dd>Old Missus marry "Will-de-weaber,"</dd><dd>Willium was a gay deceaber;</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd><dd>But when he put his arm around'er,</dd><dd>He smiled as fierce as a forty-pound'er,</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd></dl>
<dl><dd>Dar's buck-wheat cakes an 'Ingen' batter,</dd><dd>Makes you fat or a little fatter;</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.</dd><dd>Den hoe it down an scratch your grabble,</dd><dd>To Dixie land I'm bound to trabble.</dd><dd>Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><span>[</span></dd></dl>
black people like **** in the 60s, I'm sure a lot of people who where alive and knew better and happened to live in Mississippi were but "we" were not. No need for the white guilt. </p>
You are smart enough to understand that "We" = MS society in the 1960s. "We" is not an accusation of all white people, past and present.
To put it in sports terms, it's like saying "We sure did suck at football in the 1960s". I'm sure most of us on this board weren't sucking at football for MSU in the 60s, or were even alive at the time. But, you still know what I'm referring to.
To put it in sports terms, it's like saying "We sure did suck at football in the 1960s". I'm sure most of us on this board weren't sucking at football for MSU in the 60s, or were even alive at the time. But, you still know what I'm referring to.
We went out for two whole weeks! I also know the producer of the film. He was also a classmate. Never read the book, but they both good people.
