Friendly places are familiar and inviting. They are places you wish you could be when you sit in class starting a huge test. And if your score wasn't as high as you would have liked, it's a place you know you can forget about it and that everything will be fine. It's a friendly place filled with family and friends. A place you may go everyday, weekly, or once a year. A place where you can be yourself and do fun things. Or relax and laugh. It may be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. There could be good food and tasteful decorating. Maybe it's simple and quiet, or exciting and loud. Everyone has there favorite place.. what's yours?
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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