Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It takes place during the time of slavery. I'm not far into the book yet but I am already seeing the good and the bad in the characters. There is a slave owner who separates the slave families even though it means a lot of hardships for the slaves. Then you have people like the wife of one of the slave owners, who is more than a little pleased when one of the slaves escapes.
It's rather ironic that I am writing this post the day before Dr. King's birthday. Black people have had their struggles, and it didn't end with the outlawing of slavery. I enjoyed reading The Help, but for me it was equal parts uplifting and upsetting. You hoped that the characters who needed to redeem themselves did, but you knew that, with all likelihood, they didn't. I really wanted to see the movie when it came out, but I knew it might make me angry, so I haven't.
One of my online friends is a big fan of Gone With The Wind(both the book and the movie).I'm embarrassed to admit that I have only seem parts of the movie, and haven't read the book. Maybe I should.
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