Hilly's Advants In The Help By Kathryn Stockett

Although the men did not play huge parts in the story their roles impacted the women around them. Skeeter gets her first boyfriend but she eventually learns that she is not willing to sacrifice what she believes in to make a man happy. She's willing to do what is right and follow her own path even if it costs her a husband. As far as Minny is concerned, her husband's abuse ultimately pushes her to take control and leave him. “ God help him, but Leroy don't know what Minny Jackson about to become.”(515). Minny finally has the power to leave her husband and do what she knows is right and what is going to protect her and her children.

The book “The Help”, written by Kathryn Stockett, is a book that takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, around the 1960's, when the blacks were segregated from the whites. The story is mainly about a black woman Aibileen whose main job is to take care of children as well as to handle household duties. Along the way they meet a woman Skeeter's whose lifelong dream is to become a writer however the only job she can find, is with the Jackson Journal writing a housekeeping advice column which she knows very little about. To succeed in the job, Skeeter turns to her friend's maid, Aibileen, for answers and help to write the column.

The Help occurs during the segregation period during the year of 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi. The main character is Aibileen Clark, a 50-year-old African American maid spending most of her life raising white children ever since her teenage years. She works for Elizabeth Leefolt, a wealthy housewife, who is the best friend of the antagonist, Hilly Holbrook. Elizabeth has a child named Mae Mobley whom Aibileen is very close to. Aibileen’s best friend is Minny Jackson; she is a maid who works for Hilly Holbrook and her mother Missy Walters for nearly a decade. Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young, white American woman, seeks a successful writing career after graduating from the University of Mississippi and returns to home, soon to find out her long-time maid, Constantine, supposedly quit working for her family; this was a great mystery for Skeeter because Constantine did not write to Skeeter explaining why she left. Skeeter found out Hilly Holbrook, Elizabeth Leefolt and their friends believe blacks “carry various diseases to the white people”. Hilly drafted a disease

The Help chronicles a recent college graduate named Skeeter, who secretly writes a book exposing the treatment of black maids by white affluent women. The story takes place in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, during the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The death of Medgar Evers triggers racial tension and gives the maids of Jackson the courage to retell their personal stories of injustice endured over the years. The movie depicts the frustration of the maids with their female employers and what their lives were like cleaning, cooking, and raising their bosses’ children. The Help shines a light on the racial and social injustice of maids during the era of Jim Crow Laws, illustrating how white women of a privileged

Her inner nature is often at war against the world. As an African American maid she is expected to be submissive and quiet, but Minny is neither. She says what she feels, often speaking out against the injustice she experiences and witnesses. Her individualism leads to conflict with Hilly Holbrook about who has more power in the society. “Alright, I'm gonna do it.

Minny goes to ask Hilly Holbrook, the white women she works for if she can use the inside bathroom. However, Minny gets intimidated and decides not to ask. Although Hilly's mother, Mrs. Walter who Minny originally worked for, realizes she has to use the restroom and tells Minny that she can use the bathroom inside. Despite what her mother says Hilly tells Minny that she should go get an umbrella and use the black bathroom that is outside. Hilly walks over to the bathroom door and asked Minny what she might be doing in there.

Even though Skeeter is trying to be nice and help the maids, Minny can’t see past her skin color and at the start refuses to trust her. This is again shown when Celia is trying to befriend Minny. However, Minny once again denies this friendship because she can’t possibly be friends with a white women. Although Minny possess this flawed trait, readers do not dislike her because Stockett uses point of view to show why Minny is like this. When the readers see life from Minny’s perspective, they see just how harshly she is treated by these white women, leading to an understanding of why she distances herself from them.

Furthermore, when focusing on the novel as a whole, the aspects of the character's life that they can express, can be questioned if that is actually truly themselves too as it is Stockett's representation of it. The novel touches upon some of the aspects of the maid's lives, yet the reader's main sources of information are Aibileen and Minny. Therefore, if one looks at authentic representation, Stockett needs to represent these characters in an accurate light. Knowing what she was doing, she mentions: “I was scared, a lot of the time, that I was crossing a terrible line, writing in the voice of a black person. ”1 Besides highlighting her side of her writing process, she was, however, criticised by a number of people for stereotyping these two

Many citizens of the town read her newspapers in the book, which lead them to do whatever Hilly talked about in the paper. Another meaning of the story was justice which led to Hilly having many bad things happen to her. When she persuaded other people to build outhouses for the help, Skeeter wrote in The League to bring any unwanted toilets to Hilly’s house, and later, her lawn was filled with dirty toilets. Another example of her being served full justice is when she fired Minny and sent her mother to a nursing home. Later in the story at the Benefit, she won Minny’s famous pie and we find out it was her mother who entered her to win the pie which made her go crazy because it reminded her of the pie Minny gave her in the beginning, letting her mother have her sweet release of justice for putting her in a

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, tells the story of three courageous woman who worked together to expose the experiences of black maids in the 1960s South. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Skeeter, who recently graduated college; Aibileen, a maid in nanny for Skeeter’s friend, Miss Leefolt; and Minny, a maid who struggles to find work due to her outspoken demeanor. Dismayed by the racist initiatives of her friends, Holly Hilbroke, Skeeter decided to focus her writing aspirations on the race relations of her hometown, Jackson Mississippi. She begins to interview maids about what it is like to work for southern white families and her town. Although reluctant at first, Aibileen becomes deeply involved in the writing project.

Focusing on Stockett's representation, in terms of authenticity her representation is ambiguous. The reader's main insight of African American maids are Aibileen and Minny. Therefore, if one looks at authentic representation, Stockett needs to represent these characters in a faithful light. Knowing what she was doing, she says: “I was scared, a lot of the time, that I was crossing a terrible line, writing in the voice of a black person. ”1

When Celia gets drunk in the book, she accidentally rips a part of Miss Hilly’s outfit, and Hilly asks for two hundred dollars in return, saying it’s going to benefit children in Africa, but in the movie, there is no request for the money, a personal check just shows up at Hilly’s. now that’s not very interesting at all. Hilly sets Skeeter up on a date with a guy named Stuart. In the book, after they have dinner they go to Hilly’s where

Minny narrates this chapter, Aibileen goes over to Minny’s house and that night tells her that Hilly is telling everyone that the book is about Jackson. They are afraid Hilly will never get to the chapter about the pie. When Minny is in bed with Leroy, he says he knows she has a secret and threatens to find out what it is. She thinks about why she is even with him or why she loves him even though he beats her and is always drunk. She wonders if Leroy will ever stop beating her.

Minny has a husband named Leroy, along with a family of five. Outside of her homelife, Minny was quite the strong lady, but when it came to arriving home to her husband, her character was flipped upside down. Leroy abused Minny. Around Leroy and his belittling acts, Minny would become rather weak and defenseless. She loved Leroy. She didn't want to do anything to put her at risk

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd