cliffsnotes on stockett's the help library edition kathryn stockett

She writes to Skeeter from behind bars to tell her she cannot help with the book. Her court fine equals what they had saved for the tuition, and she is also sent to the penitentiary. She asked Hilly for a $75 loan to cover the rest of the tuition and Hilly refused. Yule May admits to stealing a ring from Hilly so that she can sell it and put the money toward her boys' college. Because of the news about racial tension and violence, the maids are more scared than ever to talk to Skeeter about their experiences.

A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.As the weather in the south reaches a boiling point so does the Civil Rights Movement.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Īibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Cliffsnotes on stockett's the help library edition kathryn stockett