One thing that really surprised me was when I found out the book was based only 45 years ago. The way that they treated the blacks during that time made me think that these events could have happened mush before that time. When I first thought about it decided that our society has changed a lot since then, but as I thought about it more I decided that our views have progressed but not much more has. After watching the video about Hurricane Katrina seeing when years before they broke the levies so that the black part of town flooded while the white area remained intact and seeing the same thing happen only a few years ago. Even if the flood from Katrina was not intentional it still showed a disturbing parallel between our country in 1965 to now. There is still an affluent, white side of town, and a suffering, black side of town. Even though there may not be a specific divide anymore it is still generally the same idea today: the poor people in our country have no one really looking out for them. You can see this idea in the book when after Skeeter gets her book published about all the maid’s lives she moves away leaving them to deal with the repercussions. Although all the maids don’t let her turn down the opportunity to move to New York and take an Editor job she still leaves the maids to sort out what will happen now that all their employers have read a book with stories about them inside. It was not Skeeter’s intention to do this to the women who helped her but it still shows how unfair the world can be. Skeeter did not make up the stories she simply put them together and wrote what she was told and that is what caused her to get the big break she always wanted.
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