““Mrs. Taylor said to draw what we like about ourselves best. ” I saw then a wrinkled, sad looking paper in her hand. I turned it over and sure enough, there’s my baby white girl done colored herself black. “She said black means I got a dirty, bad face. ” She plant her face in her pillow and cried something awful. ” Chap. 31, pg. 409 The lasting impact of early life lessons is shown in this quote. This idea was an ever-present theme in the book, particularly from Aibileen’s side of the story.
After raising and coming to love 19 babies, only one of which was her own, in her lifetime Aibileen has made non prejudice and equality a big point of childhood upbringing. Most of the maids, including Aibileen, find it hard to understand that they take care of and love on these children their entire childhood, but the children still end up treating the help as their lesser when they are grown ups. As a child, with no attention or love ever given from her mother, Mae Mobley grows up adoring, loving, and trusting Aibileen with her whole heart.
Because of this lack of love, she decides Aibileen is the best thing she has, even though they are different colors. So, when someone punishes her for coloring herself the color of Aibileen, she is not only confused but also hurt that someone would tell her something like this. ”But then I realize, like a shell cracking open in my head, there’s no difference between these government laws and Hilly building Aibileen a bathroom in the garage, except ten minutes’ worth of signatures in the state capital. ” Chap. 13, pg. 173 This book is crawling with references to toilets and bathrooms.
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Whether it’s Hilly covincing Mrs. Leefolt to get Aibileen her own bathroom or the numerous toilets in Hilly’s yard, there is always something. The reason there are so many references to bathrooms and toilets, is because Hilly and most of the people in this book are convinced that the colored carry diseases that white people don’t. So, they tend to use this excuse as to why their bathrooms are segregated. When Skeeter is in the library reading all the Jim Crow laws, that she has been taught growing up, she begins to realize just how many laws are put in place to separate the two races.
This is an important turning point of the book, because the audience realizes the way Kathyrn uses the bathrooms is a symbol representing just how dirty the government’s laws are. Also, not only are the laws dirty and corrupt, but the punishments set in place for not obbeying these laws are even dirtier. In the course of this book two characters are beaten for not using their designated bathrooms.
Their brutal punishment just goes to prove to the audience how horrible this society has become. ”He doesn’t know about this one. Or the one before. ‘ ”You said that’s why he married you? ” ”’The first time he knew. ” Miss Celia lets out a big sigh. ”This time’s really the… fourth. ” This conversation between Miss Celia and Minny, after Minny witnessed Miss Celia lose her fourth child, shows how strong of a relationship an employer and their help can have together, if they are open to it. Miss Celia shares something with Minny so personal and unsettling, that not even her own husband knows. Miss Celia is the only white lady in The Help that actually cares about her help and trusts her to great extents.
She is not scared of her and what diseases she carries. To Miss Celia, Minny is her friend, her only one really. The connection they have is very important to Minny bcause her whole life she has only viewed white women as cruel. This part of the book forces the audience to see them as equals and just two friends hearing each other out, and because it is in the middle of the book, we find it aggrevating to see the way the help are continousley treated because if open yourself to it, they are really no different than us. ‘Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. But that’s the talk. ” Lou Anne shakes her head. ”Then this morning I heard Hilly telling everybody the book’s not even about Jackson. Who knows why. ” Chap. 13, pg. 418 This converstaion between Skeeter and Lou Anne is the sigh of relief we get in the book. Hilly has finally read the part about the poo pie. Lou Anne is very confused as to why Hilly was set on the book being about Jackson and now is positive it is not.
The Review on The Help Book Report
... home for the colored help. Miss Hilly immediately convinces her husband to get a colored bathroom for Aibileen. Miss Skeeter is not very fond of ... a chance for the book to get published. Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny finish the book, Minny put a story about feeding Hilly shit so they will ...
The irony of the situation is that Hilly and everyone involved in making the book knows why she decided to tell people it’s not about Jackson. They included the part about the poo pie so Hilly would deny it being about Jackson. Without this part in the book everyone that was involved in writing the book would be in deep danger because they could be assured that Hilly would see to it that everyone was punished. They are sure of this because Hilly would never want anyone to know she ate someone’s poo, but most importantly that she ate a colored person’s poo.
It would completely ruin everything she stands for to admit this because she has always told people that you get diseases from sharing bathrooms with colored, however she is perfectly well after eating their poo. ”Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. No one is smiling when they tell me they want to help. The room clears out, except for Minny. She stands in the far corner, arms clamped across her chest. When everyone is goe she looks up and meets my gaze for harbly a second then jerks her eyes to the brown curtains, pinned tight across the window. ‘ Chap. 19, pg. 253 This may be the biggest turning point of the entire book. After Yule May is punished so harshly for stealing a cheap ring from Mrs. Hilly to send her sons to college, she is automatically fined $500 and sentenced to 4 years in jail. This punishment is overly harsh for her crime. Yule May’s church congregation quickly becomes outraged and brings together enough money to send her two sons to college. But they don’t stop there. Minny takes this as a perfect oppurtunity to to get 11 more maids together to finsh Skeeters book.
The Review on The Help Book Report 2
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (2009) is a novel set in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movements of the 1960s. It follows the lives of three women –one white, a recent college graduate, and two black maids. The book was a huge success and was turned into a major motion picture. However sadly like many overnight sensation novels The Help has an interesting storyline but is poorly ...
They were scared the book would never be finished due to the shortage of maids. When Skeeter comes to Aibileen’s house, it is full of maids waiting to promise Skeeter offer their time to tell their stories. This is such a big moment because in a matter of minutes Skeeter has thirteen innocent lives in her hands. The suspense and worry in the readers’ and characters’ minds is relieved in one aspect but put back on in another, because the book may not make the deadline.