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libodem

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9. I read The Help
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jul 2014

And liked it so much better than the movie. I had read Cane River just before so in a way they fit together. I'm better for the experience of both books. There was such a strong theme of 'knowing your place' and not daring to speak up or speak back. We get a little of that as children and as women. I do my best to develop empathy and put myself into their place to imagine how it feels.

It is also posted libodem Jul 2014 #1
It's buzzfeeed - yeah I know - but this is what Ism is getting at here JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #5
The reality of it is hard to take libodem Jul 2014 #7
But who learns? JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #8
I read The Help libodem Jul 2014 #9
I didn't like the book or the movie - The Help JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #10
You should write it libodem Jul 2014 #12
I am completely bouncing back and forth ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2014 #2
And no black woman JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #4
This says so much JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #3
Wow ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2014 #6
This is my hope for your daughter's generation JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #11
Thank you for the discussion ismnotwasm Jul 2014 #13
Thank you for the reference JustAnotherGen Jul 2014 #14
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