The Help Prompt

The narrator, who is the youngest girl in the family is ostracized for her appearance as a result of an illness (porphyria). The girl is seen as a blight on their family, in a bid to conform to what they and the rest of their village deem as normal, the family intends to find a way to be rid of her. Again it can be seen that fear rules the way in which the story plays out. Fear also brings to light the patriarchal ideology, the narrator’s family hopes to marry their eldest daughter (narrator’s sister) off, but in order for this to happen the family have to be rid of the narrator as she will cause unwanted problems if her secret were to get out. ‘“Curse or disease it doesn’t matter,” said my older sister “Either way no one will marry me if they find out”’. ‘As they sat around the kitchen table at night, with the shutters closed’; this confirms that they indeed have something to hide. The family was quite well off “we were almost gentry” and would appear they had a reputation to uphold amongst the other Operating on fear of embarrassment and being different from everyone they begin to think of ways to get rid of her, with the use of rhetoric questions “what could be done with me, what should be done with me?” with the first question we see that the possibilities of what could be done to the character are limited and with the second that something will be done that the narrator will have no control over. The story is written as if the narrator is looking back on her life and we can assume that she is taking a trip down memory lane and it is happening around the time of the events taking place near the ending of the story; it could almost be seen as her life flashing before her eyes, but mainly focusing on more recent events in her

Again shown in chapter 12, Hilly and Elizabeth come to show their opinions on black people. “Hilly raises her voice about three octaves when talking to black people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I’m starting to notice things.” In this quote Skeeter notices that because of the racial prejudice in within the community, black people are also thought to be less intelligent than the white people. Skeeter only realized this by the way Hilly and Elizabeth talked to black people the same way they were as if they were talking to a little kid. While Skeeter kept writing the book and eventually published it, She was hoping that people would realize

Cora Tull, a devout Christian, mother and wife, is the quintessential Southern woman. She uses these traits to ascribe purpose to her life and in turn impose the same purpose on others. In the novel’s first mention of her, she appears to be a true lady, graceful and forgiving while paraphrasing scripture in nearly every verbal exchange. She even praises her friend Addie’s superb baking skills, but in the same breath internally judges her for “laying there at the mercy and the ministration of four men and a tom-boy girl” (6). To Cora, Addie’s state of living is repulsive- no real woman would let herself deteriorate in such a manner. However, exhibiting true Southern womanhood, Cora keeps her criticism to herself.

Small towns can lead to many bad rumors that aren't true, trust me, I would know. After Tom Robinson's trial, about a black man raping a white woman, some trouble stirred up here in Maycomb County. Bob Ewell, a very racist man, spit in Atticus's face for defending a black man, it's a good thing that Atticus, Tom Robinson’s lawyer, kept his cool, who knows what he would've done. This town has been having so many troubles lately, with the snowy winter and then Tom being convicted then killed. Everyone thought that I was scary and a complete myth, but it was almost time for them all to know the truth. I had been watching out for the kids, they'd been getting into a lot of trouble lately, but I was there to watch out for anything that happened.

“She’s got no goo on her face, her hair’s not sprayed, her nightgown’s like an old prairie dress. She takes a deep breath through her nose and I see it. I see the white-trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn’t take no shit from nobody” (Kathryn 309). Minny would not allow anyone to give her any nonsense to put up with. She took it in as something she wants for herself which is strength. Especially with the tension with Hilly, Minny wanted to get revenge. She decided it was a good thing to talk about the pie she made for her that contained her feces for a book she volunteer to help out for someone. It was an opportunity to have a voice and let it all out. Minny had enough of the difficult obstacles that was being throwing at

1. Mistress Hibbins is a widow and lives with her brother Governor Bellingham. She is known to be a witch who rides in the forest. She appears in the book a number of times to show the hypocrisy and evil inside of the society. Governor Bellingham often discusses with the other town fathers about situations in town. Which also included taking Pearl away from Hester and have her be raised by foster parents since they were unsure if Hester could properly school her child considering her sin by saying, “The point hath been weightily discussed, whether we, that are of authority and influence, do well discharge our consciences by trusting an immortal soul, such as there is in yonder child, to the guidance of one who hath stumbled and fallen amid

(1983) novel is told in the form of diary entries and correspondence letters over a 30-year period,

Hill was driven with a motive to sell band uniforms and instruments to small-town people in Iowa on the premise that he would create a school band and teach their children to play in a magnificent marching band if they buy uniforms and instruments from him. It's all part of a big trick. Hill deliberately incites mass concern among the parents of River City that their young boys are being seduced into a world of sin and vice by the new pool table in town. He convinces them that boys' marching band is the only way to keep the boys out of trouble, and begins collecting their money. However, Hill has no experience with music. Suddenly, when the musical equipments arrived, he moved to the next town with all the money and disappeared. After his disappearance, many of the traveling salesmen in the territory have been negatively impacted by him, as the townsfolk then became suspicious of any strangers with an intention to sell them a product. That being said, things go wrong and completely transform when he falls for a librarian, since it was certainly not part of the deal. Marian Paroo, the librarian who used to be hopeless romantic.. But after the death of her father, her younger brother Winthrop developed lisp and social awkwardness and locked inside his own grief. Hill helped her younger brother overcome his lisp and social awkwardness and with Hill in

Throughout the book, Hilly is seen as a being very vindictive. When anyone does something she doesn’t like in the story, she goes out of

The message that author conveyed in the book is that to be brave enough to stand up for yourself and others . To be equal. skeeter was the first one in her town to acknowledge how bad things really were, and she was motivated to do something about using her passion for writing. It’s implied that the book changed some people's attitude in the town. I think that, just from examining skeeter, one message in the book was to take action in whatever way you can when you realize injustice. No matter how people are treated , or how dark the person life seem, there is hope and have faith and stand up for what’s what's important and to have courage to be a voice . Stand up as an individual can make a difference. One of the quote that i found in

• When Maggie is abandoned by Pete, she goes back to her family but is humiliated by her mother in front of their neighbors. Jimmie also rejects her but only because he is afraid of the reaction of the people, choosing the social code of his neighborhood over his sister. • Mary becomes the subject of moral ambiguity once again when she finds out about her daughter’s death. The last line of the novel finds Mary forgiving Maggie for her so called unacceptable behavior.

The first way that Susan Hill makes the characters hard to admire is through The parents ignorance and selfishness, so they can believe that their family is ‘happy and well put together’, Frankly, this is caused

Holling quickly realizes that Mrs. Baker doesn’t seem to be too fond of being left alone with him. As the Wednesdays come and go, Holling has been given more and more tasks to be done. Unfortunately for Holling, he is forced to get along with Mrs. Baker because his father sees nothing but his company, Hoodhood and Associates, to get the contract with The Baker Sporting Emporium, a major company owned by the Baker family. However, this isn’t the only conflict that Holling faces, nor is he the only one in his family who is facing challenging times. His elder sister, Heather Hoodhood, also has a rough year ,but with her father that pushes her beyond her limits.

Cracker( person would whip slaves) , Flogging( the beating of someone with a stick or whip for punishment), are horrible concepts that depict the laments of chattel slavery in the United States. The gory nature of slavery depicted through most testimonies involve one of these horrific concepts. However, the book,” Incidents in the Life Of a Slave Girl”, show the lesser talked about psychological anguish Blacks would experience. In the Book we see Linda Brent (the protagonist) mental agony as she progressives through her narrative. Women that helped her mature life would be Mrs Flint, Aunty Nancy, and the mistress of her friend Betty. The order in which they impacted, is Mrs Flint gave her a more open-minded perspective on chattel slavery, Aunt nancy is the inspiration for Lindas escape, and Betty provides emotional support.

    In the period of time in which the story takes place, scandals between people and their relationships were extremely rare and almost unheard of. If you skip forward a couple hundred years, cheating and other things that were once unimaginable now happen all the time. The reaction of citizens in her town shows the outrage that occurred towards such an uncommon event, with one lady saying, “”This woman brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there no law for it?” (Hawthorne, 49). The statement demonstrates just how confused and unprepared the townspeople were for such an event, planning forms of punishment