The Help is not just a book about a white women in the 1960s trying to make a difference it is about so much more. The story begins August 1960 with the colored maid, Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child – Mae Mobley. Aibileen lost her own boy Treelore months before she started working for the Leefolt residence. One day when Ailbileen is serving lunch at the Leefolt’s residence she overhears the conversation between Miss Hilly, Elizabeth, Skeeter, and Hilly’s mother. They begin talking about the Home Help Sanitation Initiative, which would require a build in bathroom outside of the 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 having a the whole segregation events.
Miss. Skeeter is the only women out of her group of friends whom finished college and is not yet married, this is why her mother nags a lot. Before Miss. Skeeter left to college she applied for an editorial position in New York City with Harper & Row, Publishers, but she never heard from then until now. The senior editor advises Skeeter to get a writing job at the local newspaper. She immediately begins to write the Miss Myrna column, a housekeeping advice column which she does not know anything about, so she asks Aibileen for help. Throughout these sessions Skeeter and Aibileen begin to talk about other things beside the column, so Skeeter decides to ask Skeeter if she would want to help her write a book, but Aibileen refuses. Skeeter was upset when Aibileen refused because she had sent an outline saying that maids would cooperate with book. Aiblileen suddenly changes her mind and decides to help Skeeter with the 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 are both very afraid of what would happen if people found out about what they are doing. By the time they get the first chapter done, Skeeter sends the Aibileen’s chapter to the editor. The editor loves it but asks Skeeter to get 12 maids so the book might have a possibility to be published. Aiblileen asks 31 maids to ehlp, but all in fear they deny to help, except Minny. One day at a luncheon, Skeeter leaves her bag which contained the noted of the maids’ stories and a copy of Jim Crow regulations that she found at the library. In Aibileen’s neighborhood someone was shot by the KKK, this encourages Aibileen to attend a Community Concerns Meeting at her church to talk about what they can do to decrease the violence in the neighborhood. At the end of this meeting, Hilly’s maid, Yule May tells Aibileen she would like to help with the book.
Yule May admits that she stole a ring from Hilly for her son’s college, she gets sent to jail and instead of getting a six month sentence she receives a four year sentence. When Skeeter arrives to Aibileens house all the colored maids are there willing to help with the book and tell their stories because they are furious about what happened to Yule May. After the assassination of President Kennedy, Skeeter is informed that she must finish the book by the end of the year to even have 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 always be anonymous. Hilly would never want people to know she ate a pie filled with shit.
After six long months of waiting the book is published. One of Skeeter’s friends goes on t.v saying that the book is a disgrace, and people should not waste their money on it. She lies saying that they treat the help like family. Ailbileen and Minny are both waiting for Hilly to read the book, once Hilly reads it she knows who wrote it. She decides to tell everyone to fire their maids. Aibileen is not fired because she threatens telling everyone about the “chocolate” incident. This is when Aibileen decides that her days of being a maid are over she says goodbye to Mae, with tears which this is a painful goodbye. Minny leaves her husband and his abuse. Aibileen takes over the Miss Myrna column, she thinks about doing another writing project.
The Essay on Definition Of Love Person People Children
The Definition of Love Love is a word used to describe perhaps the most powerful of emotions. People live, die, kill, save, travel to the other side of the world, walk next door, in the name of love. When you speak of love, I feel that you must speak of what one loves because it determines what kind of love that person is feeling. People can say "I love my wife, I love my brother, I love my ...
Theme
This book The Help has several themes, but the two that I choose would be love and hate. In Jackson, Mississippi there was a division between colored and white people. The white people hated the colored people for no apparent reason, only because they were a different skin tone. There was so much hate that white men almost beat a colored young man to death for using the wrong bathroom. So much hate that a women who was supposed to get six months of being in jail and now has four years to serve. The love plays in when Skeeter wants to help the maids, she wants to make a difference. When all the maids gather up together to write a book because of what happened to Yule May. The way Ailibeen takes care of Mae that is love. That is why I believe the two most important themes in this book are love and hate.
Recommendation
I actually loved the book, The Help, it had several emotions. I rate it a 5 out of 5. The love Ailibeen had for Mae was beautiful and touching. I could really feel the love, up to the point that I tiered once they said goodbye. I know that once you read the first page you will be hooked. You will not want to put the book down, everything felt so real. It is well written, you can see, hear, feel everything in this book. Once I was done with it I felt like people that I knew were being taken away. The author really tried to put herself in the helps perspective during the 1960s. I couldn’t put it down; I actually took it out to read when I had time. The Help just set the bar high, I doubt any book can top this one.
