The Help *Analysis*

"I've a mind to call that Dennis James on the phone and say, Who do you think you are, spreading lies like that? You can't tell the whole metro area our book is about Jackson! You don't know what town we've written our book about!" Minny says in chapter 30. She gets upset when the man on a talk show starts saying the book was about Jackson, Mississippi. Even though it is, Minny, Aibileen, and Skeeter don't want people to know. Lots of stories are in the book, and if people found out who wrote it, they would be in trouble. I infer that certain people will find out, aspecially is they find a story that seems to fit something that happened between them and their maid.

The Help *Extra post*

                                           Skeeter greets Aibileen after church where they
                                           cheered her on for speaking out and writing The
                                           Help.

 

Celia Foote invites Minny into her house and is very nice to her. Minny decides to take the job and help her learn to cook even though she hasn't told her husband she hired help. They keep it a secret for as long as they can.

The Help *Analysis*

After Aibileen and Minny decide to help Skeeter write her book, they begin to meet all the time after work. Since black women/men aren't soppose to write books they need to keep it a secret or they could be in big trouble."For the next two weeks, the three of us arrange ourselves in the same seats in Aibileen's small, warmliving room. Minny storms in mad, quiet down as she tells Aibileen her story, then rushes out in a rage as fast as she came in. I write down as much as I can." They continue to tell Skeeter their stories of what they deal with when working in a white person's house, taking care of their children, and serving them.

 

I predict that after a while they will get enough maids to fill up all the pages of the book, but also i think they might get caught some how. If white women read the book they write and it has some of the stories that happened to them and their maids, they could figure out that they wrote them.

 

 

"Hour after hour, in Aibileen's kitchen, she reads her writing and i typpe, the details thickening, the babies' faces sliding into focus. At first, i''m disappointed that Aibileen is doing most of the writin, with me just editing. But if Missus Stein likes it, I'll be writing the other maids' stories and that will be more than enough work. If she likes it...I find myself saying this over and over in my head, hoping it might make it so.

The Help *Reading Skills*

In the help, some characters have an unspoken bond, such as Skeeter and all the other colored maids.
When her friends are being rude to them and bossing them around, she is polite and respectful. I think it is because when she was little her maid would take her to her neighborhood to play with some of the black children so she had a different veiw on things while she was growing up. Since Skeeter is trying to get a book published and her publisher told her to write about something she truely cares about, I predict she will ask Aibileen and Minny to tell her their stories and she could write them down and show people what it's like being a colored maid in Jackson. She had already asked Aibileen and she thinks it would be dangerous so she said no. I think she will realize she wants her story to be heard and get the book published.

The Help *tone and mood*

The tone and mood for the hel;p is lightly sad. Skeeter continues to ask Aibileen if she wishes things were different. This makes the story a little more depressing because it's obvious they wish they didn't have to be bossed around by white women but there is nothing they can do about it. If they quit they won't have any money to tend to their families. When Miss Hilly was trying to convince her friend Elizabeth to get an outside bathroom for her maid, she was very happy and acted as if her maid loved having to go outside in the pouring rain just to use the bathroom. Her tone impacted Elizabeth by acting so excited that the colored maids wouldn't have to use the same bathroom they do.