The Help

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• Leerjaar 6

The Help

Today

- What did you think?

- Discussion questions

- Assignment

- Check together

- Film

What do you think of the book?

Would you recommend this book?

Yes

No

Where and when does the Help take place?

What is the perspective/point of view for this story?

Now you! 

- Try and complete your assignment 

- We will discuss this together in 30 min.

- You can use the internet! 

What did you know about?

- Background?

- Characters? 

What genre is the help?

Racism

Chapter 12 – Skeeter – 

"Hilly raises her voice about three octaves when talking to black people. Elizabeth smiles like she's talking to a child, although certainly not her own. I'm starting to notice things"

Segregation

Segregation 

Chapter 1 - Hilly Holbrook - 

"A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I've even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he'll endorse the idea. I'll pass."    

Class differences

Chapter 24- 

"She’s got no goo on her face, her hair’s not sprayed, her nightgown’s like an old prairie dress. She takes a deep breath through her nose and I see it. I see the white trash girl she was ten years ago. She was strong. She didn’t take no shit from nobody."

gender roles

Gender roles

Chapter 32-  "One time I asked him, “Why? Why are you hitting me?” He leaned down and looked me right in the face.

“If I didn’t hit you, Minny, who knows what you become.” I was trapped in the corner of the bedroom like a dog. He was beating me with his belt. It was the first time I’d ever really thought about it. Who knows what I could become, if Leroy would stop goddamn hitting me."

Any other examples?

How would you interpret the title?

The End

Aibileen Clark

Minny Jackson

Skeeter Phelan