Kathryn Stockett's The Help

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During this book review on The Help I will be informing you what the book is about. I will identify Kathryn Stockett’s, author of the book, thesis statement and how she supported her thesis. I will also explain whether I agree or disagree with Stockett’s thesis and why. The Help tells a story of black maids working in white southern homes in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. Stocket starts her book out with a maid, Aibileen, tiding up the home of a white family in which she works for in preparation for the bridge meeting being held that day. Aibileen is the maid and nanny at the Leefolt residence. The ladies in attendance that day are Miss Hilly, Elizabeth, Skeeter, a very important character, and Miss Walter. The ladies are the discussing …show more content…

Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan returned back home to Jackson, Mississippi from graduating from Old Miss. When Skeeter returned home after graduation she finds her maid and Nanny Constantine had left and no one would tell her why. Skeeter tries to please her mother by being a proper southern lady but in all actuality she just wants to be a writer. While joining in the local bridge games with young married women Skeeter cornered the Leefolt’s maid, Aibileen, to ask her what happened to her maid Constantine but Aibileen claims she knows nothing. Skeeter searched and searched for a writing job before and after she moved back home. During her search she finds the path for white women seems just as narrowly defined as the path for black maids. Skeeter finally receives a job with the Jackson Journal writing the Miss Myrna column, a housekeeping advice column. Skeeter asked Aibileen to help with some of the question and Aibileen agreed because Skeeter knew nothing about housekeeping. Aibileen and Skeeter built a bond with each other put of course they had to keep it secret because back then …show more content…

Stein. By the time Ms. Stein received what Skeeter had written Martin Luther King had invited the whole black and white community to Washington D.C. to a civil rights march. Ms. Stein called Skeeter as soon as she read her work and told Skeeter that she needed more than a maid or 2, she needed stories from like 12 maids to even considered doing anything with her writings. The closer Aibileen and Skeeter got the more and more they helped each other. Skeeter would get books from the library for Aibileen and Aibileen would tell Skeeter all her stories and got more and more maids to come

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