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Original Title:	The Help
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.kathrynstockett.com/stockett-synopsis.htm
Characters:	Constantine Bates, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, Hilly Holbrook, Elizabeth Leefolt, Celia Foote, Stuart Whitworth, Mae Mobley Leefolt, Leroy Jackson, Elaine Stein, Yule May Crookle, Johnny Foote, William Holbrook, Senator “Stoolie” Whitworth, Pascagoula, Treelore Clark
Setting:	Jackson, Mississippi,1962(United States) Jackson, Mississippi(United States) Mississippi(United States)
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), Audie Award for Fiction (2010), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2009), SIBA Book Award for Fiction (2010), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut (2010) Puddly Award for Fiction (2011), Lincoln Award Nominee (2013), Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle for roman (2011), Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction (2009) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018), Townsend Prize for Fiction (2010)

The Help Hardcover | Pages: 451 pages

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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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Title	:	The Help
Author	:	Kathryn Stockett
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2009 by Amy Einhorn Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Mystery. Fiction. Paranormal

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I have this terrible, dreary feeling in my diaphragm area this morning, and Im not positive what its about, but I blame some of it on this book, which I am not going to finish. I have a friend who is mad at me right now for liking stupid stuff, but the thing is that I do like stupid stuff sometimes, and I think it would be really boring to only like smart things. What I dont like is when smart (or even middle-brained) writers take an important topic and make it petty through guessing about what

These is white rules. I dont know which ones you following and which ones you aint.We look at each other a second. Im tired of the rules, I say.-p.155The Help spins the tales of women of color who worked as housekeepers in Louisiana in the early 1960s, as told to Skeeter who will chronicle their stories and publish them anonymously in one volume. Her naiveté is shattered when she realizes the back-breaking labor these women do and some of the conditions with which they must endure to make ends

It's true. There are some racists in this town, Miss Leefolt say.Miss Hilly nod her head, Oh, they're out there.Law, this book be good! Im on tell you how good this book be. Everthing bout this book be good, you gone read this book and you gone see what Is mean. Law!

I read the first paragraph of The Help, absorbing the words, but suddenly being caught off guard by the dialect. I stopped reading.I shifted the book in my hands, flipping to the author's biography and photograph on the back of the dust jacket. Staring up at me was this: [image error]Oh, sweet Jesus, I thought. An affluent, white Manhattanite. Great. And one who apparently fancies herself a master at Southern Black Vernacular. Even better.I rolled my eyes and returned to page one, fully prepared

The Help is a tale of lines, color, gender and class, in the Jackson, Mississippi of the early 1960s. This is a world in which black women work as domestics in white households and must endure the whims of their employers lest they find themselves jobless, or worse. It is the Jackson, Mississippi where Medgar Evers is murdered, and where spirit and hope are crushed daily. It is the Jackson, Mississippi where Freedom Riders are taken from a bus, a place where segregation and racism are core

I have this terrible, dreary feeling in my diaphragm area this morning, and Im not positive what its about, but I blame some of it on this book, which I am not going to finish. I have a friend who is mad at me right now for liking stupid stuff, but the thing is that I do like stupid stuff sometimes, and I think it would be really boring to only like smart things. What I dont like is when smart (or even middle-brained) writers take an important topic and make it petty through guessing about what

Servility This is a book that delivers on several levels: it is an entertaining and engrossing novel with drama, humour and sadness, but it also causes us to reflect on deeply moral and racial issues. While racism has existed for a long time and continues to unfold, the story provides a snap-shot into a time that is fascinating and how historically it manifested itself into society in the US. Its a story of how servants or maids show more integrity and moral compass than their employers. Its a