This is my last, but not least, blog!!! not going to lie, this is going to make a lot of weight off my chest just because its two less things I have to do this week. I have still been reading The Help. The ladies are still working on writing their book about being a maid in a white family and environment. For some reason, it has been especially hard for Miss Skeeter to talk about her life. When she was being interviewed, she began to slowly break down, unable to wrap her mind around the answers to the simple questions. The first attempt at the questioning, she actually walked out and had not been seen for a few days later. She was ignoring calls and literally blocking out the world. This just goes to show that the impact African American women's life had on them. They were not only born into living this way, but they were forced to live in fear as well. I would hate not to live in complete freedom and I am proud that they are taking a step forward in standing up for themselves. I found a really good sentence earlier after my vocabulary test while I was reading.. It was:
| A question frequently asked within this book |
"Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new uniform you mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a speck a work-dirt on it."
I am pretty sure that is going to be my sentence of the week if I don't find another one by tomorrow, but we will see, I really like the simile the author, Kathryn Stockett, uses in this book.
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