i watched the movie first....which i really enjoyed... the book was also wonderful in its own way.
Abileen, Minnie and Skeeter - 3 brave women who toldl the truth even if it meant being alienized from their community, friends and society.
The author writes that she can't depict what the maids truely felt..but as she quotes from her book " Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, we are just two people. not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."