The Help, Chapter 2, Key events, Key quotes
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- Chapter 2
- Key Events
- Aibileen warns Minny that Hilly might accuse her of stealing.
- Minny calls Aibileen to tell her Hilly is sending Ms Walters to a nursing home. She has no job
- Hilly has been telling people Minny is a theif
- Aibileen writes her prayers like she has done since 7th grade when she left school.
- Celia Foote calls at the Leefolt house, Aibileen answered.
- Celia is excluded by the other ladies because she married Hilly's ex
- Aibileen pretends to ask Elizabeth if she knows any maids looking for work, then tells Celia to call Minny at her home phone
- Leroy gave Celia Ms Walters number where Minny is working her last day.
- Ms Walters knows about the pie. Minny's chance of getting a job is gone.
- Elizabeth tells Aibileen to use the outside toilet from now on.
- Key Quotes
- "The coloured part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that aint for sale"
- The state chooses not to sell it
- Link to ants symbolic as ants are all workers, just like the black community
- "Any other white lady and no one would care, but we'd all want to know if Miss Hilly after us"
- Miss Hilly is genuinely frightening
- "We can't afford it! And we do not take orders from the Holbrooks!"
- Her husband is aware how big of an effect Hilly has on his wife
- "Well I didn't realize..."
- She is neglecting her child
- "I still got a big yellow mark where Treelore's pickup sat for three months"
- Symbolic of the mark it left on her.
- "Miss Hilly sending Miss Walters to the old lady home"
- Minny calls Aibileen to tell her Hilly is sending Ms Walters to a nursing home. She has no job
- "What do you think I am? A chauffeur?"
- Minny is sassy, which is not a good trait for the help to have.
- "Who do you think you talking to, Aibileen? A monkey? I might as well go work for the KKK
- Context; white supremacy group.
- Working for Hilly as bad as working for the KKK
- "I'm so mad at Miss Leefolt, I'm biting my tongue. If the fool would just pay her child some attention, this wouldn't happen!"
- She is neglecting her child
- "I'm here, baby, Aibee's here,' I rock and soothe, rock and soothe."
- Repetition symbolic of how she has had to do it often.
- "Here we is with two in the house and one being built and they still ain't no place for this man to do his business.
- "Got heavy wrinkled hands. Seventy years a worry done put so many lines in his face, he like a roadmap"
- Still working even though he is so old. Contrast to Miss Walters who is younger and is going to a nursing home.
- "Dog's back there, but he won't bother you"
- "She telling everybody in town I'm stealing! That's why I can't get no work!"
- The power of Hilly
- "Being coloured ain't nothing on that boy. He twelve years old, blind, and he got a hit on the radio"
- Like being black is more of a barrier than being blind.
- "When I tell my seventh-grade teacher I ain't coming back to school cause I got to help out my mama"
- She barely has any education.
- "We all on a party line to God, but you, you setting right in his ear"
- "You don't know about the Terrible Awful Thing"
- "Mister Leefolt and I have decided to build you your very own bathroom'. She clap her hands together"
- "feel that bitter seed grow in my chest"
- "The coloured part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that aint for sale"
- Key Events
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