I loved the movie the help and I want to read the book so bad!! I barely ever have time though because of school for interior design , maybe soon! glad you enjoyed! <3

Here's my answers...

1. I really felt for Aibeleen, but I definitely identified most with Skeeter. She really developed throughout the book and it was nice to see someone break the mold of what society was telling them.

2. The fact that not too long ago we were treating people horribly based on the color of their skin. Our country has gone through many changes--we have become tolerant of women, different races, and now I think we're dealing with issues of marriage and sexuality. 

3. To som extent, because that is what someone is used to and is taught throughout their life. I think Skeeter is also a perfect example of this--she resisted the standard society set for her.

Can't wait for the Live Book Chat! It was so fun talking with you directly last time! 

I read all the way through as well. It was too good!

1. I don't know that necessarily related with her, but I really enjoyed when Aibileen was the narrator. I loved her personality and the way she told stories. You could really feel the way she felt.

2. I was most shocked with the bathroom situation and Hilly telling everyone they could get diseases from using the same bathroom as colored people. It's hard to believe that people thought so little of others at that point in time. It's also hard to believe that it wasn't really that long ago. My parents were alive then.

3. I believe the times definitely influenced someone's personality, but didn't totally define them. A person can be naive like Elizabeth and accept what is most popular without actually thinking about things, or they can be like Skeeter and do what they think is right, no matter what is popular.

Here are my answers Lauren!

1.) I related to Skeeter as well because I thought she was a very strong woman througout the book and a very classy lady as well.  I thought she was amazing:)

2.)The way they treated colored people back then is simply unacceptable. The most shocking was how Aibileen's son was killed for accidently going in the wrong bathroom. Yes, I teared up:( So sad.

3.)I think it depends on the person. In every generation and Era, there are always going to be very different people with different views. Just because you live in a certain time frame, doesn't mean you agreed to how the Laws were and how people were treated.

Thanks Lauren!!

1. I personally loved any time there was a Minny chapter and wanted to see how her relationship with Celia progressed.

2. I guess from coming from a home that didn't have a nanny the way that the mothers treated their children and the nanny's that cared and raised them really was an eye opener for me.  After reading 'Book of Negro's' and other books in relation to the struggles of African American's I am continually outraged by the way human beings were treated.  This was the first time I had read a story from the Nanny's perspective, loved how the author was able to really get you to feel everything they were feeling.

3. I do believe that a person is affected by their surroundings.  But what I do not agree with is when a person refuses to change 'just because that's the way it is'.  Everyone has their own mind, whether or not they choose to voice it might have something to do with their upbringing.  You see that Skeeter's mother is very outspoken.  Yes it's just with her thoughts of trying to get her daughter married but she passed on that trait to Skeeter.

I too finished the book already coudn't stop reading. I read the whole thing in one week, what is kinda special for me. So just saying love the book!

1.  I think I realate the most with Skeeter, her personality and her charachter. She does what she think's is right and where she believes in. She tries her hardest to help those who she believes need her help but doesn't push it, but tries to she it from there point of view. 
(My favorite parts of reading where Minny's parts!)

2. The most shocking thing I think is (MAYBE A SPOILER ALERT) the additude around the maids and that it's a privilage they get a seperate toilet. I just can't believe this. ( I am from Holland so maybe why it also next to I hadn't lived in the 60s this seems so strange to me)

3. I think time does influence a persons view but doesn't define it. Skeeters friends and family have a view on the maid, and she doesnot agree with this. I think her work field has shaped her on this how she has a different vieuw than her friends and family. She knows she can have her own oppinion and isn't affraid of that.

Hope it came out right in english 

1. I definitely relate to Skeeter most.  She know what she wants and what she believes in and sticks to it even when it doesn't match everyone (or really anyone) around her.  Plus I totally get the frizzy hair thing.

2. The way the white woman treated their "help" in general disgusted me.  It's as if they found a loop hole to slavery, not providing them a home and giving them a paycheck.  It's just unreal to even thing about.

3. This book really proves that your environment can effect you but shouldn't shape you.  Hilly let her environment make her who she was, while Skeeter and Celia have become real, and genuinely good people despite the environment they were raised in.

1. I feel that Skeeter and Myself are almost the same person. I have never related so much to a character in a book as much as I do her. I think that made the book even more appealing to me.

2. The fact that the young colored girls will quit school to become a maid.

3. I think it just influnces a person's opinion. not who they are. A perosn's opinion can change and I think that the time a place can change your opinion about things.

1. I really enjoyed reading Minny's chapters a lot. It was just really entertaining. I would say I relate the most with Ms. Skeeter though. She is such a smart woman and is the typical imperfect young woman, which most girls can relate to. It was interesting to see her grow throughout the book.

2. The most shocking thing to me is that white's back then really thought that black people were so much different from them, just because of their color. They thought they were barbaric and diseased, which is crazy to me. It is also interesting because, especially with Christians, I thought that people back then were a lot more religious and respectful to all of God's people and creations, but it seems today we are more accepting.

3. I definitely think views and personalities are shaped by the times people live in, but it doesn't neccessarily mean that the shaping is negative or positive. People will do what they want with their opinions, it's just a matter of if they will be confident to stand their ground or fall into conformity with their friends/family.

1. I really related the most toward Skeeter. I loved how she had such great dreams for herself and she did what it took to make them come true. She really was an inspiration for me to always fight for what you believe in.

2. What really shocked me the most is that during these times when white people though colored people were diseased and colored people were not allowed to touch them, they were however allowed to pick up and spend time with the white children that they practically raised. It makes absolutely no sense at all.

3. I think that the culture that we grow up in has a huge impact on who we become but at the same time, it is your own personal choice to either be influenced by whats around you, good or bad. You make who you become based on your choices and your actions.

1) I definitely resonate with Skeeter, especially since she was a journalism student at Ole Miss and I'm a journalism student at Ole Miss. I loved seeing how she used her journalism skills for good even though the majority of the south disagree with her. 

2) I didn't find it that shocking just because I was born in Louisiana and I've grown up in the south my entire life. I don't agree with it in any way but the south still has a lot of work to do when it comes to racism. 

3) I definitely think it's shaped by your surroundings. My grandmother and great grandmother both grew up in this time period and they see blacks completely different from the way I see them because we both grew up differently. They don't necessarily hate black people but they do few them as "lower class" because that's what they are used to, not saying it's right! I definitely think the time and place you grew up in (especially if it's the south) shapes your personality but you can either choose to have that define you or you can go against the odds like Skeeter :) 

1. I resonate really with Aibileen, but I'm not sure why.  Her kindness and overflowing love for Mae Mobley is just so heart warming for me to read.

2. It's most shocking to me that some doctors/hospitals would turn down colored people.  I've always thought that people became doctors because of their love for helping people, not a specific type of person.

3. I do think that personality is shaped by the time in which people live to an extent.  As Skeeter demonstrates, it's possible to break the mold, but it took her several years to even realize what was so wrong about discrimination.

I definitely felt more in touch with Aibileen. I could feel her love for those kids even though she know they will one day treat her like their moms do. I also feel her pain when she sees Mae Mobley so put down and upset when her mom doesnt treat her well and A tries to correct possible consequences that will happen later in her life, like possible mommy issues. What really shocked me the most about the changes between now and the 60s was not only the treatment of people because of their color, but also the way the people live. Big plantations, country club memberships, having maids or nannys... not as common now, even in the south, as it used to be. Personality is definitely influenced by the times they live in. If Skeeter had been alive today she would not have been laughed or scoffed at at all for wanting to write or be friends with people of color. Minny also probably wouldn't have had so much built-up anger about how she's been treated so she wouldn't be so volatile or angry all the time. 

I related to Skeeter because through out the book she stayed strong to her beliefs no matter what others said. And that made her a better person compare to her friends. Also the way she devoted herself to her dream, she didnt give up.  

What shocked me the most was that colored people would get killed if they were caught using a white person bathroom. 

I think that our surroundings has an impact in the way we act, but we shouldnt let our surroundings define who we are. 

1. I definitely felt more in touch with Aibileen. I could feel her love for those kids even though she know they will one day treat her like their moms do. I also feel her pain when she sees Mae Mobley so put down and upset when her mom doesnt treat her well and A tries to correct possible consequences that will happen later in her life, like possible mommy issues. 

2. What really shocked me the most about the changes between now and the 60s was not only the treatment of people because of their color, but also the way the people live. Big plantations, country club memberships, having maids or nannys... not as common now, even in the south, as it used to be. 

3. Personality is definitely influenced by the times they live in. If Skeeter had been alive today she would not have been laughed or scoffed at at all for wanting to write or be friends with people of color. Minny also probably wouldn't have had so much built-up anger about how she's been treated so she wouldn't be so volatile or angry all the time.