Her ability to tickle our psyche is genius
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Kathryn Stockett has created a story in The Help with an updated reflection upon a time in our nation when there was a divisive chasm between the races.  A time when Americans, especially the "gentile Southerner", felt superior to their fellow black citizens.  A time when our generation can now only hang their heads in shame for what an earlier generation did, said, felt and acted upon fellow black Americans.Stockett's fiction creatively twists the story so that the reader can only ponder along with the story's characters if this story is indeed fiction or not.  Her ability to tickle our psyche is genius.The characters are fresh and easily identifiable while the language puts the reader right in the room with the characters.  Her ability to put the reader into the character's mind in each chapter is equally intelligent as we become the thoughts of the character very readily.  She enables this transference without the use of quotations of the character and uses the language of the character in their musings.  (Such as when a character is thinking:  I gone take that breakfast to her. Not:  I'm going to take that breakfast to her.Nice read, somewhat compelling with the reader wanting to discover the outcome of the book Skeeter submits for publication, what the locals reactions will be, will there be repercussions with the contributors and what will Skeeter's life path become.Read it, read it.  Great book. 