Symbolism In The Help

Hilly thought it was a peace offering, being delivered from a maid who sassed her. She eagerly ate the chocolate custard pie, without knowing it was a pie full of the maid’s feces. The maid, Minny Jackson, did this in revenge for being fired by Hilly. This action of hate between a white and a colored can definitely relate to the question the book gives, can the barrier that society has made to separate the races be broken down, and can Whites and Coloreds finally get along? Throughout the entire book, we slowly are introduced to this question. The question is that can the barrier that society has made to separate the races be broken down, and can White and Colored finally get along. It’s very prevalent throughout The Help. The book first …show more content…
We are introduced to Aibileen, who works for Miss Leefolt as a maid. We are introduced to Miss Skeeter at a ladies bridge club being hosted at Miss Leefolt’s house. When the bridge club is over, Aibileen is working in the kitchen, cleaning up, when Miss Skeeter comes up to her and says, “Do you ever wish you could... change things?”. What she meant is do you wish you could do something about the current situation of the South which segregates coloreds. Miss Skeeter eventually decides to do something incredibly daring. Infact, it was illegal in the South. She decided to …show more content…
Earlier on in the book, after Minny was fired by Hilly, Minny found herself stranded without a job. It was almost impossible to find one then because Hilly was spreading constant lies about Minny all around Jackson, Mississippi. Eventually, Minny became desperate. She had to resort to a woman named Miss Celia who lived in a massive mansion out in the country. Miss Celia was a recluse. She didn’t have many friends, and she sat around the house a lot. Miss Celia was seeking help. Since Miss Celia wasn’t really close to anybody, and she lived further away, the lies of Minny Jackson hadn’t yet reached her yet. So when Minny came in asking for a job, she got one. However, one major detail Minny didn’t know until after she got it, is the her employment would have to be kept confidential from Mister Johnny, who was Celia’s husband. The reason for this is because Miss Celia wanted to impress her husband, by making him think she was the one making the fantastic meals, and doing a superb job at keeping house, when in reality, she was dreadful at both of those. So after a few months of employment, Mister Johnny eventually found out, but Miss Celia didn’t know. Now Minny needed to act like she was hiding from Mister Johnny, but not letting Miss Celia know Miss Johnny knew about Minny. One day however, Minny came into work, and found Miss Celia not feeling too well. Miss Celia played it off as nothing, when