Chapter Three: Do You Need Some Help?

     During this chapter, Billy Pilgrim mentions that "There was no servants. People just weren't interested in careers in domestic service anymore" (62).  I thought about the book I read last year: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Help is about African American housekeepers working in white people's houses in the early 1960's. Billy Pilgrim was currently in 1967, one year before the death of  Martin Luther King, Jr. Billy Pilgrim was living in Ilium, New York. During the 60's, the people who lived in the South had housekeepers who were African American, like in The Help. Billy Pilgrim lived more in the North, where people were not as interested in this labor as the Southern people. I am curious why one country could be as separated as it was in the 60's.