As I forced stale air into my lungs and locked my knees to stop them from shaking, I decided to concentrate on walking through the door. The large, looming double-doors gleamed like scorched dandelions and made me squint as I examined the handle. It was brass and probably burning hot from the constant heat. Moving slowly forward my hands reached tentatively to the handle, finding it surprisingly smooth and cool. I pushed the door with both hands and entered the most fascinating room I'd ever seen...
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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