Help!!!

The Help is an amazing book about a section of three women's lives of different races in 1962. I love all the characters, Aibileen, Skeeter, and Minny. Minny and Aibillen are both African American slaves whereas Skeeter is a fairly rich white lady who can look passed peoples appearance and see them for who they truly are. The white and the black people believe that there lives are in no way the same but I believe differently.

For starters they were all created in the same way, all get up in the morning, all need to seep, and all need to eat and drink. Those are very easily seen but there are also many similarities if you look in deeper. For example Skeeter and Minny both have family troubles. Minny often comes home to a drunk husband who is very unreliable. Skeeter, on the other hand has some problems with her mother. Her mother is constantly encouraging her to be someone she's not. She wants her to get married, be shorter and overall the perfect daughter.

Some thing that Aibilleen and Skeeter have in common is that they both have a deep understanding for each other and don't mind helping them out. For example when Skeeter needed help writing an article for the news paper Aibilleen jumped to her side very prepared to help. Skeeter often seems to forget that she has a maid and is offering Aibilleen a drink and telling her to rest and sit down.

I feel that the characters were born into very different lives but in truth they are very similar. I think that if people could have looked past peoples appearances in that time period they would have all been very close friends.