The Help Book Review (Book Review Sample)

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12th May 2014
My favorite character in ‘The Help’
My favorite character in ‘The Help’ is Aibileen. She plays the center role in the book. Her interaction with other characters increases our understanding about them. She portrays an image of a caring, responsible and experienced lady. She is compassionate and a victim of circumstances. She was well raised by her mother. However she has had misfortunes like the death of her son before she started working for Elizabeth. She is also working under racialist employers who discriminate black people openly. She is a champion of all these because she endured, played smart and still did her level best in her tasks.
She is particularly my favorite because she comes out from difficulties without giving up. She was raised in a poor family and had to leave school to help their family. Before she got employed her son died in an accident. She was hurt with the way his employer treated the body. It changed her. Aibileen is strong, she could hear Elizabeth and her friends talk badly about black people but did nothing. "As Aibileen serves Elizabeth and her friends—Hilly Holbrook and Skeeter Phelan –during their usual bridge game, she hears Hilly tell the women that her mother’s maid Minny was stealing and that she wants to institute a law requiring black employees to use a separate , outdoor bathroom.”
Aibileen seems to persevere through difficulty with her wisdom to make it. In the book we are told that she kept on teaching the two year old son of Elizabeth, Mae Mobley Leefolt equality of blacks and whites. She also shows an aggressive character when she promises to help Minny find a job. She...