The beautiful novel Kathryn Stockett , Color feelings, immerses the reader in the early 60's in Jackson, Mississippi. Kennedy is President of the United States, a boy of twelve named Stevie Wonder sings Fingertips radio, the romance of a certain JD Salinger is censored, women are discovering the benefits of Valium on their nerves, people mourn the dead in Vietnam, the miracle pill made its appearance, it is rumored that the men will soon tread the clay soil of the moon, the soap opera As The World Turn passes without interruption on the new CRT, Martin Luther King spoke of his dreams, tobacco is considered a great pleasure and young middle-class white - too busy to play Bridge and buy a pale copy of the dress of Jackie K. - Use of black as "good" to care for the education of their children, cooking, washing, ironing, silverware, and sometimes even their lives.
But Jackson, like other southern cities, civil rights are violated and segregation reigns with a rod of iron. Here, blacks are called "blacks" are considered as carriers of diseases like plague rats, earn a few measly pennies, have their own hospitals, can not go to the library and must relieve themselves in toilet misfortunes, specially designed for their black asses and at the back of the garages dark by their employers.
In this southern state that still hangs the shadow of the KKK, a tentative friendship grows between three women, who are total opposites. There is this young bourgeois anti conservative, raised amid the cotton fields, a bachelor who dreams of becoming a writer and to find the woman who raised her with love, his "good" that has disappeared without leaving any address. Aibileen ago, that old black, big and warm, darkened by grief and marked by episodes of life as an old oak tree by the seasons. And there is "Minnie" la meilleure amie d’Aibi, une « grande gueule » qui ne se laisse pas faire, mais qui rêve pourtant d’un peu de liberté.
Ces trois là vont s’unir clandestinement, dans un projet commun, pour tenter de réaliser le même rêve : faire évoluer les mentalités et refaire un petit bout de ce monde injuste et sans pitié. Des sentiments de peur, de pudeur, mais surtout de courage animent ces trois femmes, qui vont affronter, dans le plus grand secret, les inégalités d’une société renfermée sur elle-même.
This novel is often funny, sometimes sad, but touching all the time. The color feelings has the strength of these novels that arouse our senses on every page. It gives off smells, images, sounds, it is visual. You feel as if you were there, the smell of fresh tobacco, old whiskey and mashed corn. We hear the blues and the prayers of Reverend Green in the heart of scrap radios crackling. We see the vast cotton fields, clusters of mosquitoes and tires swinging from the branches of trees. You feel the unbearable heat of summer along the Pearl River. We listen to the "yes Ma'am "echoing from the bottom for years. And most importantly, we hope with these men and women, that their future will be better and fairer world ... even if we know the end of the story ...
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