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- 1. The Help Summary Project By: Brianna Turner
- 2. The Help is a novel that was written by Kathryn Stockett to describe the personal and unknown lives of black maids in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era (1963). This novel was written in 2011. Shortly after people started reading the novel, a major motion picture was made.
- 3. One of the main characters, Aibileen Clark, is a black maid that works for a white woman by the name of Miss Leefolt. Aibileen does just about everything for Miss Leefolt. She cleans, cooks, and even takes care of Miss Leefolts daughter, Mae Mobley.
- 4. Another main character is a black maid named Minny Jackson. Minny is Aibileens best friend. Minny works for a woman named Hilly Holbrook.
- 5. Skeeter is a young white woman that is on the rise in the writing business. She is a journalist who decides to write a book from the Jackson maids point of view and publish it to all of society.
- 6. There is a lot of drama that happens in The Help. First of all, the white people do not see African Americans to be equal to them. The black people are treated unfairly. For example, if you are a black maid working for a white family, you are not allowed to use the same toilet as them. In the book, Hilly fires Minny because Minny uses Miss Hillys bathroom. Hilly is President of the Jackson Junior League and so she is an influence on everybody. She convinces Miss Leefolt to get a separate bathroom made for Aibileen and she does.
- 7. When Skeeter first attempts to get Aibileen help her right the book that describes what it is like for the black maids working in Jackson, Aibileen says no. Aibileen says it will be too dangerous to write about and even Skeeters boss says that it will not be a good idea because the maids wont be completely honest. After a while of persuading, Skeeter finally gets Aibileen to agree to help write the book and her boss gives her the okay to write the book.
- 8. Skeeter would also like the help of Minny while writing the book but she knows its gonna be hard to get Minny to agree. Skeeter gets Aibileen to try and convince Minny to share her stories but it seems like Minny just isnt going to crack. Aibileen writes down her stories and gives them to Skeeter. Skeeter edits them and eventually starts piecing them together into one big story. Skeeter sends her boss everything she has wrote so far and her boss loves them and tells Skeeter that she needs to have 12 more stories put together to be able to publish it as one big book.
- 10. Once Minny sees that Skeeter and Aibileen are successful so far, she finally agrees to give Skeeter some of her personal stories. Aibileen tries to talk other maids into telling Skeeter their stories but they all are so scared of what the consequences are if they get caught so they all say no.
- 11. After Hilly fired Minny, she hired a new maid. The new maid, Miss May, was convicted of trying to steal jewelry from Miss Hilly to pay for her sons college education. This makes all the maids in the city furious and soon, Skeeter has almost every maid in Jackson lined up ready to tell her their stories.
- 13. Skeeter finally finishes putting together all of the maids stories. She sends all of them off to her boss. Her boss then publishes the book called The Help and it is very successful. Miss Hilly finds out that Minny took part in writing the book because there were stories of things Minny did to Miss Hilly in the book. Miss Hilly tries to tell people that all the maids in Jackson took part in writing this book but everyone thinks she's gone mad.
- 14. Skeeter gets an offered her dream Job as an editor at Harpers in New York (magazine) and declines the job because she doesn't want to have to leave Aibileen and Minny. Aibileen quits her job working for Miss Leefolt. She decides to do more things that involve writing.