Blog post _______________________________ book 3

Book 3 Book Review

By Grant Davis the esteemed editor and chief of bad reviews.com

The Help, ha ha come again?

                 Law, back In the book the help it set back in the year 1962, Located in Jacksonville, Missouri shares the story of black maids being oppressed by the people they work for such as lower than minimum wage pay and other harsh occurrences. The book written by Kathryn Stockett has amazed women everywhere but it seizes to amaze me, she has written the book as a realistic fiction concept. In my review I have stated the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the help so please enjoy.

                Set in 1962 the books plot is sound with enough to keep you reading but no enough to make you want to tell all your friends about the book. There are a decent amount of characters and how Mrs. Stockett switches them in-between chapters isn’t the best way it seems maybe every few chapters so you can get to know the characters better that ten pages and then another. When reading the help I often found myself looking back to see what character this chapter was using forcing me to reread what I had already read only in a different context. The themes include equal rights and maybe a few other minor themes but the main theme is about equality. The writing style used by Mrs. Stockett just assumes that everyone says “law” or “yonder” there maybe a few characters that don’t but it seems she just assumes that everyone uses that type of language no matter where you live in the south. She just seemed to generalize the whole population uses the same language style even if some people are more educated than others.

                Well before I saw what I think of the help I would like to remind you I am a man which to my newfound knowledge is not the target audience. So to all you women reading my review so far saying that’s not true well to me it is. My rating for the help barely makes a C- I gave it such a high score because even if it didn’t appeal to me it still had some good word choice and a decent story and remember  “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries” (312 stockett). To women this book may be amazing but I can barely turn the page because I have such a strong sense to through it in a bottomless pit.

                 The help shows some vivid detail in the scenery of Jacksonville and almost the same description for every maid large and round. Also she stereotypes all of the people in the book. So as if you’re white your mean to maids and have to wear ten pounds of makeup, if you’re a black woman you go to church too much, if you’re a black man all you do is drinks and so on “She tells me that I once commented that colored people attend to much church”(154 stockett).  Right there a perfect example of stereotyping in the help.

                 As I read this book I noted several weaknesses and only a few strengths. But the purpose was easily identified. The purpose is to inform the people who read it about the hardships of that the segregated or black people faced in the time period before segregation was deemed unconstitutional. It was that easy to see what it was about the help just refers to what the white women of the time referred to underpaid maids as.

                The rating system at bad reviews.com is simple. We tell you how it is. The book the help barely makes the scale coming in with an average rating of a C-. This review may seem harsh but in all honesty it was a god awful read and something I would not like to experience ever again. This has been a review by bad reviews.com