#2 The Help

Reading The Help gave me a new view on race because I was never able to learn the inside of how the maids feel. I highly recommend this book because I have learned so much about the environment of a housewife between a maid. The relationship is not only strange between the maids and housewives, but also between the children and maids. The maids are left at the house to do all the cleaning, cooking, and take care of the children. The maids are very close with the children and have a much stronger bond between one another. An example of this relationship is a child named Skeeter and Constantine the maid. Constantine began raising Skeeter when she was young and they became like mother and daughter the older and older Skeeter got. Skeeter went to college in the 1960s and then realized her relationship with Constantine was greater than the one with her mother. Skeeter wrote with Constantine more than her own mother, but once she was off after college she lost contact with her Constantine. Skeeter thought Constantine left and was starting to help a new family, but she wanted to know how she felt raising Skeeter. Skeeter put together a book of interviews from all the maids and began researching and realizing what the maids really thought of their work.Skeeter began to realize that her mother was not as important than Constantine, which has happened to many families. I think this is very upsetting because the value of a mother daughter relationship is extremely important, but maids are becoming the main care taker.