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Minny's Revenge Against Hilly In The Help
Revenge against Hilly and other people like her certainly motivates Minny to give her support to write The Help, but something deeper driven her too. She decides to express her anger, but in a different way, after taking revenge from Hilly, her view begins to be obvious, she believes that telling true stories is a power. She comes to see the book as a way to effect positive change for the future, for her children and the others children.

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