Kathryn Stockett turned her thoughts into one of the most profound books ever written. Then Hollywood in all it's magic brought her pages into one of the best movies we have ever experienced. Our emotions were sent on a roller coaster ride.
Both the book and the move riveted me with more emotions and thoughts that I really did not care to experience. After reading the book, I tried to explain to those who had not read the book the impact and the mountain of allegories it contained. Words are really hard to express the memories that came crashing out of my past - THEN - the movie brought them to the for front of my thoughts.
Knowing that folks could act in such a manner towards others is beyond to this day hard for me to phantom. Even today the way folks acts towards one another in any walk of lie is mind boggling.
Years ago the Foundation I am with took a tour of the through the museum of the Civil Rights events in Little Rock. There for all the world to see is a picture of southern breed Caucasian women screaming at a young African American girl who was on her way to school. My first thoughts when I saw this wall size picture, was how embarrassed I would be if that had been my mother. The distorted twisted hate looks on those women's faces will ever be etched in my mind. How could anyone act in that manner towards another human being?
Bryce Dallas Hillard, played "Hilly" in The Help, captured those hate looks of the women from Arkansas.
It is a sobering thought that one person can have such a control on others lives. There again Hillard in her role as "Hilly" once again showed through out the movie how she could control not only one but a group of folks to do her bidding. Too many times through my life I have seen this to be true. For my own life I found myself as a young adult being controlled by someone who in innocence became a force not easy to deal with. When it became clear that the well meaning individual had crossed over and wanted total control of my thoughts and my actions. In trying to separate myself, guilt tacks were used to keep control over me.
The South has been known for its soft spoken well bred southern belles and gentlemen. The home of the Bible Belt. What an embarrassment to know that a deeper look at our lives show our imperfections.
My father taught us to respect folks and to always work hard for what you earn. He had his issues but he was a man of great integrity. As you will have read in http://eesblahblahblog.blogspot.com/
I wrote about the young lady my parents hired to play with me.
Celia played by Jessica Chastain was one of those women whom I really related to as for most of my life I have seen myself standing on the outside trying to get the attention of those inside. From being an adopted child who did not even know who she was - being made fun of by my classmates - to an adult - being shun by those "Christian Ladies" in my Church Family. What I have come to learn is that who I am and what I am is not dependent on the acceptance or non acceptance of other folks. Even though I know this, there were moments in The Help, that all those painful feelings of nonacceptance came flooding through out my being.
In closing - prejudice is not only in ethnic difference, but in social - size - the list goes on. In this day and age we have become so smart in so many areas of life but we still do not know how to love - accept - forgive and live in harmony with each other. . . . .
Thank you Kathryn Stockett! I give you a standing ovation for bringing truth and reality to us within your fiction - The Help.
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