Stuart claims: still emotionally stressed about his last girlfriend who left him.
Skeeter: refuses to forgive him but then goes on a date with him.
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2. Skeeter: steals from library Jackson
Skeeter: finds a booklet of Jim Crow laws -> many issues about racial separation.
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3. Skeeter's own experience
=> The booklet is divisive, bigoted, and unenlightened in exactly the same ways as Hilly’s initiative is.
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4. setting affects the plot
The story takes place in the early 1960s, when Jim Crow laws were in full effect in much of the southern United States.
Segregation: central issue in the novel.
Beliefs relating to the inferiority of one race and superiority of another are shown throughout The Help and trigger the events
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5. Hilly's attitude
Hilly's attitude: ignorant + condescending and disrespectful
Hilly: Ethiopians might use the money to get satanic tattoos.
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6. new siginificance Skeeter's satchel
Skeeter's grandmother’s satchel (potentially dangerous documents): The book project manuscript =+ the booklet of Jim Crow laws +Skeeter’s response to Hilly’s Home Help Sanitation Initiative.
Skeeter’s reputation and social position would also be jeopardized...
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6. Has Hilly seen the papers in the satchel?
probably...
"Hilly opens the door. Her mouth is tight and red. I look down at her hands. They are knotted together like ropes. I've arrived too late."
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Chapter 14: Aibileen
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1. Hilly's Home Help Sanitation
Aibileen: reading it is like reading “something from the KKK.”
Hilly’s initiative inadvertently helps to keep the book project going when Minny reads it.
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2. Elizabeth <-> Hilly
Hilly: attentive and loving toward her children.
Elizabeth: not an attentive mother + very bossy with Mae Mobley. The two women are opposite mothers
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3. 2nd hand clothing
The bag of clothes is from Hilly. Every garment in the bag is monogrammed with Hilly’s initials, H. W. H.
=> Aibileen feels that wearing such clothes would indicate that she is the property of Hilly Holbrook.
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4. Hilly - Jim Crow Laws
Hilly: Jim Crow laws booklet indicates that Skeeter is actively supporting African Americans’ rights.
Furthermore, many people see it as a betrayal of the
community
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5. actual historic events
Medgar Evers is killed that night ->political activist and civil rights leader.
Evers’s assassination in Jackson increases the tension around the book project.
=> People like Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter are potentially subject to serious harm.
Lesduur is: 50 min
