Analysis Of Skeeter Counted On Aibileen And Minny

After Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny spent time together Skeeter was informed about information on her friends and how they were treating “the help”. Skeeter becomes very disgusted on how her white friends treat the maids and felt like she needed to help the maids. Skeeter submitted a draft of the book she wrote to Harper& Row. Her editor tells her she needs more stories from other maids to make the book successful. Skeeter Counted on Aibileen and Minny to help her get more stories and Skeeter confronted her own mother because Skeeter had a maid when she was little and once she came back from college the maid was gone. Minny believes the story will keep “The Help” safe from revenge. After getting more stories the book was done and successfully

submitted. The white families that did receive help from the maids did notice a story did relate to them and was upset about it. Hilly did try frame Aibileen for theft but that did work. Hilly was defeated and humiliated leaving with tears. Also, in the end, Minny was still a maid for Celia. Johnny her husband tells Minny “She has a job with them for as long as she wants. Aibileen leaves Jackson and hopes to become a writer.
In the film, there were two significant groups in the film. One group was the wealthy white women and the other group was the African American maids. The wealthy white women used labels or stereotypes to positively define their own group because they did not have anything to worry about. They were wealthy and lived their life how they wanted to live it. I also believe the white middle-class women were labeled as negative because their life is pointless they do not take care or even interact with their child as much as the maid did. Their husband is not as interested in them as they think. They do not work and do not want to work. This label could be negative because people could believe that the white women are no good lazy women who have no purpose in life.