Chapter 11-12: Miss Skeeter

Chapter 11: Miss Skeeter
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Chapter 11: Miss Skeeter

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1. 1st meeting at Aibileen's house
  • both: nervous
  • Skeeter: uncomfortable driving into the neighborhood/ at Aibileen’s house => novice in interviews. 
  • Aibileen: never had a white guest in her house -> worries that they will be caught. 
  • The interview does not go well. (awkward)

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2. Aibileen's responses 1st interview
  • Aibileen: gitated and very nervous 
  • => rushes to the restroom to vomit. 

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3. lizabeth envies her sister in California who has live-in domestic help.  
  • When Elizabeth was visiting her older sister, she “hardly had to see Mae Mobley at all.”
  • => Elizabeth is a selfish person and a bad mother

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4. metaphorical significance the hair product called Shinalator 
  • Skeeter is at a crossroads when she goes on the date with Stuart. 
  • =>  results of the Shinalator end after one washing. Nothing will change her forever; 
  • She has decided to follow the path that Elaine Stein outlined, the one that will lead her to become a writer

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5. What idea does Aibileen come up with to help the interviews along? 
  • Aibileen decides to write down her comments by herself, without Skeeter and then read them aloud while Skeeter types them. 

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6. Aibileen’s first story goes well, but is not finished.
  • white child getting his fingers cut off in a fan. 
  • Aibileen took the boy to a hospital that would treat only black citizens of Jackson and needed to lie about the boy’s race due to racial prejudice.
  • The story is not finished because she had to take the bus to work.



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7. Aibileen uses a metaphor to tell Skeeter that she has found a way make the interviews work.
  • “I know how to make the teapot stop rattling.” 
  • => has found a way to calm down enough to
answer Skeeter’s questions and move on with the book project.

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Chapter 12

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1. What story does Skeeter use to get her mother’s car without explaining
  •  volunteer work at a church. 
  • irony:here.  she needs to lie in order to pursue the project. 
  • The book project begins and remains a secret to everyone in Skeeter’s circle.

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2. Skeeter offers
to do something to help Aibileen improve her writing.
  • Skeeter offers to check out books from the library in town for Aibileen.
  • library: follows the Jim Crow laws and do not allow black citizens to come in and checkout books

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3. examples of the power of writing
• Aibileen’s written prayers are believed to have more power than the prayers of other people, which are verbal.
  • Writing answers to Skeeter’s questions helps Aibileen overcome her nervousness and stops the teapot from rattling.
  • Skeeter writes with success to Elaine Stein in an effort to find her own identity as a writer.
  

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4. What does Skeeter notice about how Hilly speaks to African Americans? 
  •  Hilly raises her voice three octaves higher when speaking to Aibileen.
  • Hilly also smiles as if she is speaking to a child. 

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5. What does the text of the initiative suggest about Hilly?
  • 99% of diseases are carried in the urine; white people can become disabled by many of the diseases supposedly carried by African Americans, and that the urine of white people can't be harmful to black people.
  • Hilly: bigoted, non-scientific way of thinking. 

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6. What is Skeeter’s frustration, and what is Aibileen’s response? 
  • Elaine Stein: needs a dozen interviews to complete the project. 
  • Aibileen:has already asked 31 maids to do interviews, and they have all declined. => worried

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7. When Minny challenges Skeeter to defend the book project, what is Skeeter’s response?
  • intended to help change things. 
  • => The point of the book is to share the perspective of the maids. 
  • => The hope is that by giving them a voice, things might
change in Jackson and elsewhere.

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8. End of chapter...
  •  Minny ends the interview and leaves because explaining her life to Skeeter is “giving me the heart palpitations.” 

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