书评《The Help》《帮助》
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Book review ofThe Help
Finishing readingThe Help, what I can feel are two things, courage andfreedom.
In fact there are many books about the emancipation of slaves, and themost famous what I have read isUncle Tom’s Cabin,which made me crya lot. But what is different about these two books is that the story ofTheHelpis about women, a white girl who had graduated from university fora short time and two black women who had worked for white people fora long time. They worked together for reformation.
The story happened in Missippi, where was the most serious racialdiscrimination at that time. Skeeter came back to the town fromuniversity and was together with her friends, those were controlled bythe social consciousness at that time. She felt sorry about them. Shedidn’t hate blacks, she even liked themand she loved the black womanwho raised her up. But what made her sorrow was that her mother hadfired that woman for some special but innocent reasons.
And the other two leading roles are Aibileen and Minny. There is aquestion that Skeeter asked Aibileen touched me a lot iswhat does it feellike to raise a white child when your own child is at home being lookedafter by someone else?Yes, this is the real life of Aibileen. She spenthalf of her life raising white children, she loved them and they loved her.But they had to be apart sometimes and one day children will be liketheir parents, hating or being afraid of blacks. And the story of Minnymay be much more pitiful. She had a horrible husband who likeddrinking and beating her sometimes. When she lost her job once she hadto let her girl leave off study for affording the debt. But she is a toughwoman, she is brave. She can take revenge on her bad master Hiily evenshe felt a little regretting after that.
I can feel all of them, including three leading women and the other roles,were asking for freedom. Skeeter wanted her friends to treat blacksequally and she wanted her baby sister, she wanted to get out of thatworld. Aibileen and Minny wanted to be treated equally, they didn’t likethose special washing room or being forbidden in masters’, at least thattime the society think their employers were their masters. When oneblack man was shot, what they asked for was just safety. And for thoseracists in the book like Hilly, they also need freedom,they just lived in thebubble that society made for them.
But sometimes we can’t get what we want or need. We need courage todo something. Aibileen said that the reason she changed her mind tohelp Skeeter is God.Courage isn’t just about being brave, courage isdaring to do what is right in spite of the weakness of our flesh.We needto do, we should love.
We do many things for love and because of love we can have muchcourage. Even the reason we can have book likeThe Helpis love. Thereare many things care in our life. In the book we can find it everywhere.It’s pure, it doesn’t concern racial, age and sexy. Skeeter loved her blackbaby sister, Aibileen and Mae loved each other,
Mi nny loved Aibileen andher girl, Skeeter’s mother supported and loved her. All of us have it. Sowe can always have reason to do things we think right because there willbe someone behind us to support us. This is important, because of thosepeople and those feeling we dare do those thing we dared not!So love isthe well of courage.
Every time when we read book likeThe Help, what we can pay attention is those cold people’s cold behavior, those tragedies happened onpoor people. Why? Why those things would happen? We seldom askourselves. Blacks made Hilly life better, but she still hated them even sheshould appreciated the, Why?Perhapsshe didn’t have the reason, shejust did it because that time made her like that. Many things have noreason. The reason why we do tha t is we are numb. We won’t suspectwhat we are in. So we need people like Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. Weneed some brave men to do something to change the world, they havenew ideas, they have courage, they dare to do dangerous things ignoringothers.
Maybe y ou are in a terrible time or a terrible place now, don’t be afraid.Evengod didn’t guide you ,you can do something by yourself. Everythingcan be changed by you, all you need is just courage, and you will have awhole free sky.。
