The Help blog post 1

The Help is a good and interesting book to read taking place in Jakson, Mississippi in 1962. But is the book correct on the characters and surroundings that are pointed out in the book?

Home placement is accurate if not segregated by law it was segregated by the banks and home owners with red tape. Literally splitting up property on maps with red tape and banks can approve or deny any loan to separate the people how they please. Even in the book it talks about the neighborhoods segregated by race so that is absolutely correct. Also called Housing Segregation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/housing-segregation-is-holding-back-the-promise-of-brown-v-board-of-education/

We also have a Little read about Skeeter's dress wear for her date with Stuart. The dress is described as thin black crepe dress (the beginning of ch 9) What does it look like I don't know but the internet does. It looks appropriate for the 60's. So no errors found here

http://www.retrowaste.com/1960s/fashion-in-the-1960s/

The small bus scene on page 15 describes it as a bus both white and black people can sit on and share the ride. However people were still rioting in the south and odds are Mississippi would be very angry about sharing a bus where both races could sit anywhere they wanted on a bus. I doubt that the number six bus would tolerate that kind of seating. But that is only a possibility. Who knows the white people could be boycotting or driving their own cars around. 

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&idigest=fb720fd31d9036c1ed2d1f3a0500fcc2&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=GIC&docId=CX2831400031&source=gale&userGroupName=itsbtrial&version=1.0

My Sisters Keeper blog #2

So My Sisters Keeper part 2 has been in production for too long, I apologize. Anyway Anna and Sara relationship is doing poorly and we are learning about the past of Jesse. Jesse is alone all the time and is now a pyromaniac and drug user, Fun. The condition Jesse has is also know as pyromania where the impulse to control the urge to not burn has twisted and turned into burning stuff to make himself feel better.


pyromania also known as an impulse-control disorder. Jesse, from what we know, is antisocial and only has one "friend" Dan who watches after his fire kits. One thing however is that Jesse sets fires with a goal not to hurt others proven on page 247 when Jesse saves Rat from his fire. Jesse suffers from individual and environmental situations, with only one friend that Jesse hangs with and neglect from his parents who constantly are taking care of Kate and using Anna as a constant donor.  So Jesse is more than likely doing this to be noticed in his own family from the neglect since Kate had leukemia. The signs are obvious when he was around 11 and he never grew out of his situation. Wandering everywhere with no one seemingly aware of his existence Jesse turned to a life of burning flames, alcohol, and drugs. 
http://www.minddisorders.com/Py-Z/Pyromania.html