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Aibileen Unmasked after lawsuit against Stockett tossed
**Update** An appeal was filed on August 20th. So stay tuned. More info here Miss. judge tosses suit against ‘The Help’ author “Circuit Judge Tommie Green ruled Tuesday that a one-year statute of limitations had run out between the time Stockett gave Cooper a copy of the book and the time the lawsuit was […]
Fact vs. fiction surrounding The Help
May 9, 2011
Unsubstantiated fictional tale #1: “The book is based on the author’s personal experience in the 60s.” Fact: Kathryn Stockett was born in 1969. Therefore, she has no “personal experience” regarding the 1960s. What is true is that Stockett was cared for and had mutual affection for a maid named Demetrie, until Demetrie’s death in the […]
Cracking the code:Deciphering the novel and the lawsuit
March 12, 2011
The implosion about to hit The Help, should Ablene Cooper’s lawsuit make it to the jury will probably not be the kind of publicity the movie’s producers (Dreamworks, and Nate Berkus among others) the distributor (Disney) or the writer (Kathryn Stockett) and the screenwriter (Tate Taylor) envisioned. Because if passages from the novel are allowed as evidence, […]
Kathryn Stockett played the “Affection” Card
February 28, 2011
“If the only thing good about us is how lovingly we treat white people and how loyal we are to them, then I don’t see that as a positive portrayal.” Spot. On. Again, I have to thank a poster from Amazon.com for another great comment. That’s exactly how I feel. So excuse me if I […]
Thank you Ablene Cooper, for your lawsuit
February 26, 2011
Ms. Cooper, I don’t know if you have a snowball’s chance in hell to win this case, but you have my sincere thanks for filing it. Because as someone who’s read the novel and agrees that the characterization of Aibileen Clark is not admirable, but merely the blindly loyal minority caricature handed down from generation […]
The Blog that First Revealed The Medgar Evers error in The Help
Page 277 Hard copy of the novel The Help
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A Critical Review of the novel The Help 
August 18, 2011
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