independent reading- Reading skills

I read the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett. As I was reading this book I continued to ask myself if the characters in The Help would continue to get mistreated. This book foccused on discrimination in America. A text to world connection I made is that there is discrimination going on in places today including South Africa. A text to text connection that I made was The Diary of Anne Frank. Like The Host, this book includes discrimination against a group of people and the story is told by one of the victims of the discrimination. A text to self connection I made is that like the character Minnie in the book, it is hard for me to trust people once they have done something wrong to me. This is seen when Minnie is asked to share her stories on what it is like to be treated the way she is. Minnie is relunctant to share her stories because she can get in trouble if someone finds out thier her stories and she doesnt know if she can trust the writers of the book because she is a white woman who was harsh to her in the past. As I was reading the book I predicted that Aibileen would get caught and go to prison. My prediction was wrong. Aibileen was not caught and it was a happy ending.