The Help Essay
Book Report: The Help
The Help is a 522 page novel about 3 women in the 1960s. Kathryn Stockett explains how people treated each other due to the color of their skin and how day to day life felt like. It's a very touching novel about how we really aren't all that different and how some may come to extreme measures to pursue that equality. Aibileen is a black maid living in Jackson Mississippi. She has a calm, wise feel to her, always wanting to make others happy no matter what it comes down to for her. Her son Treelore died at age 24, about the same time she started waiting on her seventeenth family: the Leefolts. Ever since her son passed she has always had this chip on her shoulder. When she started taking care of Miss Leefolt’s …show more content…
Aibileen and Miss Skeeter call the book Help. Slowly people in Jackson are starting to find out it is about their town, even though it was written anonymously and all the names in the book were changed. Miss Hilly finds out it's about Jackson, but make sure no one else knows for sure since some of it was written about her eating something Minny put in a pie for her revenge. Since no one knows for sure it is about Jackson the book was overall considered a success. Even so Aibileen is fired because Miss Hilly found out about her contribution and convinced Miss Leefolt to fire her. Mae Mobley was devastated and now has to live with only her mean mother. Aibileen is extremely sad about her being fired however sees it as being a new beginning. She can now focus on her writing career and hopefully continue to prosper. Minny finds out why Miss Celia was acting suspicious and that she is not an alcoholic. She is now friends with her boss and should have a job there for a very long time. She finally took her kids and left her abusive husband and things are looking up for her. Miss Skeeter has lost all of her friends due to the book, and has nothing left in Jackson, no husband, no friend, no real job. So she accepts a job offer in New York in hope for a new
The Help is a 522 page novel about 3 women in the 1960s. Kathryn Stockett explains how people treated each other due to the color of their skin and how day to day life felt like. It's a very touching novel about how we really aren't all that different and how some may come to extreme measures to pursue that equality. Aibileen is a black maid living in Jackson Mississippi. She has a calm, wise feel to her, always wanting to make others happy no matter what it comes down to for her. Her son Treelore died at age 24, about the same time she started waiting on her seventeenth family: the Leefolts. Ever since her son passed she has always had this chip on her shoulder. When she started taking care of Miss Leefolt’s …show more content…
Aibileen and Miss Skeeter call the book Help. Slowly people in Jackson are starting to find out it is about their town, even though it was written anonymously and all the names in the book were changed. Miss Hilly finds out it's about Jackson, but make sure no one else knows for sure since some of it was written about her eating something Minny put in a pie for her revenge. Since no one knows for sure it is about Jackson the book was overall considered a success. Even so Aibileen is fired because Miss Hilly found out about her contribution and convinced Miss Leefolt to fire her. Mae Mobley was devastated and now has to live with only her mean mother. Aibileen is extremely sad about her being fired however sees it as being a new beginning. She can now focus on her writing career and hopefully continue to prosper. Minny finds out why Miss Celia was acting suspicious and that she is not an alcoholic. She is now friends with her boss and should have a job there for a very long time. She finally took her kids and left her abusive husband and things are looking up for her. Miss Skeeter has lost all of her friends due to the book, and has nothing left in Jackson, no husband, no friend, no real job. So she accepts a job offer in New York in hope for a new