Thursday, November 11, 2010

The color of feelings, Kathryn Stockett

History: Among Whites in Jackson, Mississippi, it is black who are cleaning, cooking and caring for children. It is 1962, racial laws are authoritative.
A young middle-class white and two black good. Nobody would believe in their friendship. Yet driven by a secret desire to change things, despite the fear, they will unite their destinies, and in secret to write a story upsetting. Exciting, funny, poignant, this book has conquered America with its unforgettable characters. Sold over two million copies, this first novel became a cultural phenomenon in America.

Impressions: I see your mines already skeptical, even a book blaming and moralizing. Another book well in tune with the times, and a little easier sopo. You're tired of the box of Uncle Tom .....
Well, you're wrong ....
This book is a marvel ...
The author does not stop that the relationship between communities (in this incredible environment of the twentieth century it said ..) but offers a reflection on the Status of Women in the South where conservative. Without dogmatism, this book is intended as an overview of a melancholy that nothing has rocked the youth of Kathryn Stockett.

There is no subject more risky for a writer of the South that the affection between a person black and one white in the unequal world of segregation. Because the dishonesty on which is founded a company makes suspect all emotion, making it impossible to know whether what was exchanged between two persons was a loyal sense of pity or pragmatism. Howell Raines.

But this book is not a treaty sociological and far!
The characters are likeable, the situations ring true, humor underlying and omnipresent About lightens and gives a healthy distance on a topic that may seem cumbersome.

I read in one go and I'm sure you will do the same ....

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