Aibleen- I like how the book is written with chapters written in their unique voices
She's raised a lot of white babies as he calls them or Baby Girl for Mae Mobley.
She gives Mae Mobley so much sweet attention and is such an eye opener to how the 'colored' help raised so many children. One point I find to be so interesting is that one the children grow up to repeat the cycle.
The bathroom initiative is just so sad. I can't even imagine life as a colored man or women 50 years ago. Why did they have to suffer this way?
Losing a child is a very difficult challenge for any mother to face. I feel so sad for Aibleen when she is can't even take a day off to deal with the anniversary of her son Treelore. I'm glad she told her boss she was sick and left.
Skeeter- She is so naive in some ways. She seems to be sincere but not realizing how segregated Jacksonville is. I find it interesting to know she would write a column about cleaning tips when she never has done this for herself! I don't blame her for asking Aibleen for help.
When she decides to write about the life of the maids and ask Aibleen for help with this, I think she's crazy. In those times, I would not dare cross town into a segregated neighborhood to take such risk.
The times of MLK must have been so intense and many people risked their lives daily. This is an example of this. So intense and still just can't believe this was the way of life.
The date with Stuart is pretty funny.
She was so out of place, he told her she smelled like fertilizer! She called him a drunk... not a good first date.
Hilly is a piece of work. I just can't stand people like her and they still exist!! Materialistic and just bitchy.
Those were really intense times, I remember when I was a kid we moved into a house that some African Americans had tried to live in before the neighbors drove them out. There were bullet holes in several of the windows -- and this was in Seattle. It wasn't just the South, but it ws more violent there.
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