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Chapter 15

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1. relationships mothers
  • negative => mothers are universally disappointed in their daughters.
  • Charlotte Phelan: daughter might never get married 
  • Miss Walters resents Hilly’s bossiness and condescending attitude. (Hilly puts her mother into a nursing home)
  •  Miss Fredericks expresses constant disapproval of her daughter Elizabeth who is frightened of her

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2. all people have value
  • Aibileen: tells Mae Mobley stories every afternoon when it is time for the child’s nap. 
  • shared humanity between Caucasians and African Americans. 

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3. Jackson Country Club pool
  • Elizabeth: never been to the club pool before + no member
  • fears that people realize that she is not wealthy ("poor folk")
  • afraid to be unfamiliar with the customs of the country club pool

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4. Skeeter's tactic
  • Skeeter uses flattery. (if she were really up to something, Hilly would have seen through her secrecy right away)

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5. Elizabeth's personality
  • parks at the far end of the parking lot at the swimming pool, => timid around people she feels are her superiors
  • Elizabeth wants to be liked and avoids confrontation, especially with those who she feels will resist. (Skeeter's phone calls remain unanswered)

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Chapter 16

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1. community meeting
  • The murder of Medgar Evers 
  • some angry feelings and impatience
  • solemn tone

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2. Yule May
  • went to college
  • educated and cultured in ways that often go unrecognized by those outside of the community

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3. Aibileen's reaction to seeing Yule May
  • Educated people like Yule May remind Aibileen of how inaccurate the popular image of African American families in Jackson is. 
  • <-> Hilly's Home Help Sanitation Initiative

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4. promising hints
  • Yule May: interested in being included in the interviews with Skeeter
  • Aibileen had hesitated to ask her because Yule
May is Hilly’s maid (extra dangerous)

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