The Help: Ending

At the end of the book two maids lose their jobs, a maids husband loses their job, and nothing happens to Skeeter, the white woman who wrote the book. In fact, Skeeter gets her dream job in New York and moves away leaving the maids to deal with the consequences. Although I really enjoyed the book the ending seemed just too happy for me. In a time where there are so many risks with writing a book of maids secrets it seems so usual that the white woman moves away and avoids all repercussions of her book while only 1 of the 8 maids interviewed looses her job. It seems to continue the stereotype of the time that blacks are the ones who suffer for the whites. And actually the repercussions should be worse, it just seemed like the ending was too happy. I do think the ending did a good job of following up with each of the characters and where they left off. But there was not enough on Aibileen. She just leaves Mae Mobley, the child who she has raised, crying in the kitchen. Aibileen loved Mae Mobley and hated the way her mother treated her daughter, and she was just able to walk away from Mae Mobley like that knowing she was the only hope Mae Mobley had to be loved. Although the ending seemed realistic in some way and unrealistic in others I would still recommend the book to anyone. It taught me a lot about how things used to be in the United States and the way our society has progressed and the things we still need to work on. It is amazing that we denied such basic rights to people and fought so hard to make our country more equal. This book painted a pretty realistic picture of the South during the 1960’s and I would recommend it to anyone looking to learn something or if they just want to read a good book.