i cant wait for the movie!

so tonight i have finished my first novel in a long time, the Help.

it was an amazing book. at first, it was hard to get into because it is narrated in a southern accent. it takes some getting use to but once you get going i found it pretty easy and i couldnt imagine reading this book in any other way. i felt like i was taken back to the 1960's each time i started reading. white families had all the money and black woman tended to these families on top of taking care of their own husbands and children once they got back home at the end of the day. i admire the help. i dont think the white people could function without them around. it made me happy when i would read that some white people did truly care about their "help" and the families they had back at home. even if they didnt want their other friends to know about it they still treated their "help" with the respect that i think everyone deserves. 

i obviously wasn't raised in these times, but i can tell you if my mom had some other woman [no matter what her color was] care for me from birth to my teenage years, how could i not love that woman like she was my actual mom?! that bond is unbreakable. i believe racism is taught not inherited. these innocent babies dont know any different. if someone loves on them and cares about them, they are only going to love them back. i couldnt go about my day knowing that someone else was taking over my duties of being a mom. that is what motherhood is all about! every parent needs help, but raising a child is my responsibility :)

i think writing a book to express how the "help" felt about working for the white people was so brave. even for the white girl who had the initial idea. going against her parents beliefs, losing friends, becoming an outcast in her home town all for the sake of doing what she loves to do, writing and hoping for change. maybe some of them women needed to hear how they treated their "help." maybe it would eventually open their eyes up to something new. 

the way some of the white people treated their "help" made me angry. i cant see how one race could think that they are superior over another. its sick to me. did they not realize that the "help" are who made their own life easier. never having to cook, clean, do laundry and most importantly tend to their children.  black women back then never got the credit they deserved. i cant imagine how hard it was to live, then. im thankful, life isnt like this now. i know there are still some forms of racism, but it's a choice now. not a way of life. i wont surround myself with that nonsense. 

“Be kind to people for everyone is fighting their own battle”

i loved everything about this book. i loved the characters. each and everyone of them. i felt like i got to know each of them and who they really are. i was attached to them by the end. i couldnt wait to finish the story, but when it was over i was sad. i cant wait to see this movie, once it comes out next month. to see the book come to life on the big screen is gonna be great!!