The Help (First Half)

      To start off my summer reading, I have started The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Right now it seems like just  a drag for me. Nothing real exciting has really happened. If you are familiar with the story, The Help then you probably know that it is about 3 women. Two black maids named Aibileen and Minny (who are best friends) and a white writer, Miss Skeeter. It takes place in the 1960's where there was segregation between blacks and whites. So the main plot really is that Miss Skeeter wants to get started on her writing career and asks black maids to give their input on working for white people. And every time I'm reading about each of their parts it's just the same thing. For Aibileen it talks about her going to Miss Skeeters and talking about how it is working as a maid. And how much she cares for Mae Mobely, her boss's daughter. In Miss Skeeter's parts, it talks about how she is seeing a man named Stuart Whitworth whom she had had a few dates with and how she is trying to keep it a secret that she is writing about the help. Minny talks about how her boss, Miss Celia Foote won't tell her husband that she is working for them, (even though he already knows).

    I have heard many good things about The Help including the book as well as the award-winning movie. I'm really trying to just get past this awfully boring part, but it seems like it is never-ending! However, I will not stop reading it because everyone that has read it said that it turns out better and is a marvelous story. I don't think I have gotten to the "marvelous" part. For a lot of books that are "supposedly good" people say that it gets better later, but really it doesn't. For example, in Catching Fire (sequel to The Hunger Games) My friend was constantly saying, "Trust me! It gets so much better!" By the time I finished, I realized that it NEVER got better. But just because it's not good right now, doesn't mean it won't get better. And I do hope that the people that said it is good aren't just tricking me into actually reading the whole book.

    Here are some ways that you can tell that I am in a really boring part of the book (in this case The Help), or I really hate it, or I'm just trying to finish the book:
#1 I say to myself and tell others that, "I'm going to finish the whole book!" and when my mom asks me how much I read I say, "About a chapter" which really means 2 pages.
#2 I've been on the same chapter for about 3-4 weeks.
#3 I abandon the book and just ask someone who read it all what happened.
Although, about 95% of the time I finish the book but make sure to warn others to NOT read it. See ya until my next blog, BYE!
                                                                              -Minha