While Skeeter waits Chapter 9. She hopes that with the new Skeeter meets up with Hilly and her husband at their home. Stuart is already there, two Before they get into the car, she breaks into Chapter Skeeter has never sat Beginning to sweat heavily, Aibileen is A few days later, Skeeter gets a call from Aibileen.
Aibileen says that she wants to write down her experiences To make Aibileen more comfortable, Skeeter asks to After a few meetings, Aibileen asks Skeeter to check out some classic works of literature from the white library so that she Whenever her mother Elizabeth announces that she is pregnant and Ten days later, Elaine Stein gets back to Skeeter , saying she likes the material and that she wants Skeeter to get interviews from twelve That evening, Skeeter informs Aibileen that Elaine said that they need twelve more maids if they want the Aibileen is there to support and encourage Minny who is visibly distrustful of Skeeter.
Minny asks why a white woman would want to help black people and if Skeeter Aibileen nods at Skeeter , giving her the okay to begin the interview. Skeeter asks Minny to talk about her But he soon asks what she wants from A few weeks later, Skeeter goes to the library to look for books on race relations in the South. At the library, Skeeter finds a book on Jim Crow laws and is shocked by all the laws that At a League meeting, Skeeter brings a satchel that contains the stolen book and her notes from the interviews.
When Skeeter joins the group of women surrounding Hilly, the women suddenly bombard Skeeter with questions about That day when Skeeter arrives home, Hilly calls to tell her that she left her satchel at the meeting Hilly gives At that moment, thunder booms and Aibileen swaddles the children and takes them inside.
Skeeter calls Aibileen and tells her about Hilly going through her satchel. Aibileen responds that she Skeeter tries to Trying to mend things with Hilly, Skeeter flatters her intelligence, saying that if she were up to anything sinister, Hilly would have At her home, Skeeter reads a magazine article about a black man near Jackson who criticized the Mississippi governor At breakfast a few days later, Skeeter thanks her maid Pascagoula sincerely for the first time. A few days later, Skeeter gets a letter from Yule May.
They have Aibileen sits beside the women while they talk, giving them One woman named Gretchen comes but refuses to contribute her stories. After the tour, the families sit down for dinner.
Skeeter is disgusted by the dining room wallpaper that shows slaves happily picking cotton as if After dinner, the parents retire to the porch for drinks while Stuart and Skeeter stand in the hallway.
Stuart is sweating and feverish-looking and complains about his father bringing When Skeeter leaves the bathroom, she runs into Senator Whitworth. Drunk, the Senator takes Skeeter aside and On the back porch, Skeeter takes Stuart asides and confronts him about what happened with the break-up. With anger still She worries what Constantine would think of Celia says that the League Aibileen and Minny are in the kitchen working and Skeeter is standing silently against a wall.
Hilly has made sure that everyone will shun Skeeter In early December, Skeeter looks at the phone, finding herself wishing that Stuart would call.
Aibileen agrees to tell On her way back home from the meeting, Skeeter wishes she could leave Jackson. When she arrives home, she sees Stuart waiting for her Skeeter suggests a long, academic At home Skeeter reads the story.
Right away, she starts writing about Constantine for the book, but she Instead Skeeter would rather write the next great American novel, it's just her idea is a little When a well respected editor in New York asks Skeeter to submit a story that is based on what she herself may find troubling when everyone else doesn't, Skeeter does the unexpected and decides to write a book based on the colored maids in Jackson, Mississippi.
An idea that could get her arrested or even killed if found out. Then after studying the segregation laws of Jackson which is illegal in its itself Skeeter now realizes that it's more than writing a book and getting a job, but a chance to do what's right even when she might lose everything she has and everything she's worked for.
When she enlists the help of maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson , Skeeter's eyes are opened to the truths and secrets that are revealed about the maid's employers of Jackson, many of them her own friends.
When Skeeter finishes the book she now sees life in a different way. She has lost her friends, her boyfriend and her social standing in Jackson, but has become a stronger woman due to the writing of "The Help" and above all has finally let the truth be heard. When she comes home from school, Constantine has mysteriously disappeared and nobody in town will tell Skeeter what happened. Although Skeeter doesn't consciously use her interviews with the maids to find out about Constantine, it's always on her mind.
When her editor, Elaine Stein, insists that Skeeter include Constantine's story in Help , Aibileen finally tells her the truth — that Skeeter's mother fired Constantine after a confrontation with Constantine's daughter, Lulabelle, whom Constantine gave up for adoption when she was four years old.
This, of course, doesn't go into the book. Betraying her mother is the last thing anybody wants Skeeter to do, as Aibileen points out to her. In terms of Skeeter's story, The Help is a coming-of-age novel. Skeeter is bold, fearless, and she doesn't buy into the myths that black people are dirty and have diseases that are poison to white people.
Her early relationship with Constantine makes such ideas totally ridiculous to Skeeter. Her desire to help the maids give voice to their experiences is also motivated by a desire to counteract harmful myths used to justify forced segregation, unequal treatment, and other abuses. But, when Skeeter starts hearing the maids' stories, she realizes how little she really knows.
When Aibileen reads her story aloud, Skeeter thinks, "I expected the stories to be sweet, glossy. I realized I might be getting more than I bargained for" While there is definitely love and friendship in the stories, there is also rape, abuse, and humiliation.
The more Skeeter hears from the maids, the more aware she becomes of the legal, political, and social forces that are allowing these abuses to persist. Skeeter's real growth will probably take place after the novel ends, when she moves to New York. There she'll be exposed to a whole host of new ideas and perspectives that will help her understand the Jackson, Mississippi of her youth.
The education she receives from her experience working on Help should be a good foundation. Skeeter's mother, Charlotte, and most of Skeeter's friends think that women show their value by finding a man, getting married, and having babies — and doing it early. Skeeter isn't adverse to this — she probably would have gotten married if somebody she liked had asked her. But, alas, her unusual looks don't seem to draw too many guys. Her mother is afraid Skeeter has "unnatural thoughts about… […] girls or women" 6.
Though Skeeter does like men, she is most interested in making a career for herself as a writer. For a while, she thinks she might be able to have both with Stuart Whitworth, a senator's son. Their relationship is passionate and romantic at moments, but we think Skeeter could do much better. Even her mother agrees. Ultimately, Stuart reneges his marriage proposal when Skeeter reveals that the book she's working on is not, like she's been saying, about the life of Jesus Christ, but about the lives of the black maids of Jackson.
The man just can't handle the truth. We hope Skeeter finds lots more love in New York City. Skeeter seems to have quite a few things in common with her author, including being born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.
Stockett has this to say about writing Skeeter:.
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