The Help, Chapter One Summary, Quotes
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- Chapter One
- Key events
- Set In Jackson Mississippi in 1962.
- Historically most segregated state in america, arguably still today.
- Aibileen has raised 17 kids in her lifetime.
- Elizabeth Leefolt doesn't like Mae Mobley
- Treelore, Aibileen's son died at 24 years old in a work accident.
- After Treelore's death Aibileen stays in bed for months until she returns to work for the Leefolt's
- Elizabeth uses a tablecloth to cover an 'L' shaped crack on her table for bridge club
- Hilly hints that Minny is stealing from Ms Walters
- Hilly talks about the bathrooms and her initiative.
- After Hilly and Ms Walters leave, Skeeter tries to talk to Aibileen
- "Do you ever wish you could... change things"
- Set In Jackson Mississippi in 1962.
- Key Quotes
- "Taking care of white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and cleaning"
- That is a very big work load, what do the white ladies do all day?
- " I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime
- Aibileen has raised 17 kids in her lifetime.
- "What am I doing wrong? Why can't I stop it?"
- Elizabeth Leefolt doesn't like Mae Mobley
- "Her body be so full a sharp knobs and corners, it's no wonder she can't soothe that baby"
- It is as if her body was not made for being a mother, which is the opposite of what society told women at the time
- "crying like I weren't never coming back. Miss Leefolt she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong"
- What does she expect when Mae Mobley is around her every day, taking care of her,
- "Mae Mobley my special baby"
- "He too small for that kind a work, too skinny but he needed the money"
- "That was the day my whole world went black. Air look black, sun look black"
- "A bitter seed was planted inside a me"
- "Put a cloth to cover the big L-shaped crack... maybe she trying to make up for her house being small"
- Elizabeth uses a tablecloth to cover an 'L' shaped crack on her table for bridge club
- "Miss Leefolt don't pay but ninety-five cents and hour"
- "Miss Skeeter say, cause she the kind that speak to the help"
- Not considered common curtsy to speak to the help.
- "I reckon she don't get too many good hugs like this after I go home."
- "I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms"
- "She scared Miss Hilly be disappointed"
- She is scared of Hilly
- "That Minny isn't feeding you so that she can steal every last heirloom i have left"
- Blame automatically goes onto the maid.
- Hilly concerned for heirlooms not her actual mother.
- "Then she give one a her 'ah-ehm's'. She got this way a clearing her throat real delicate-like that get everybody's attention"
- Manipulative
- "She nod like she agreeing with herself"
- Manipulative
- "'That's exactly why I've designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative,' Miss Hilly say. 'As a disease-preventative measure."
- Hilly talks about the bathrooms and her initiative.
- She presents it in a positive manner. Makes it sound urgent and important
- "I don't think you ought to be joking around about the colored situation. Not if you want to stay on as editor of the League, Skeeter Phelan"
- Patronising, showing position of power"
- "Do you ever wish you could... change things"
- "Taking care of white babies, that's what I do, along with all the cooking and cleaning"
- Key events
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