Miz Parker’s Quest to Read Every Book on the List "1,001 Books to Read Before You Die."
Stockett doesn’t simply put modern characters in old-fashioned clothing and call it historical fiction – the time period actually matters and is a character in the story. It shapes what the characters can do, what they cannot do, and what happens to them when they step outside the boundaries of what society considers acceptable.
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One thing that is pointed out is how susceptible children are to their parents’ attitudes – the white children in the novel grow up adoring their nannies, and yet, as soon as they are old enough to understand their parents’ ridiculous notions about race, start treating these women exactly the way their parents do.
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