Chapter Summary: The Help By Shirley Jackson

The Help: Prompt 3 Aibileen and Minny were colored women that were maids for white families. They lived in Jackson, Mississippi; across the bridge were their neighborhoods which were separated from the white neighborhoods. Every day they would go to work at their family’s house that they were hired to. Their jobs consisted of cleaning the whole house, cooking, and take care of the kids if the family had any. Since Aibileen and Minny were colored, they had to use a different rest room than the ones that the families used. They also had separate grocery stores and hospitals, they were only allowed in the white ones if it was for their white family. The families never talked or paid much attention to them other then giving them orders or when they were taking care of the kids. Mrs. …show more content…
Hilly always tried to make everyone look bad so she would look the best. There was a secret in the book that only Minny and Mrs. Hilly knew about, but Minny added it in the book to protect the maids because if anyone found out who wrote it they would be in big trouble. If anyone ever figured out that the secret was about Mrs. Hilly then her reputation would be ruined. Mrs. Hilly read the book and knew everyone it was about. Everyone assumed that it was about the town of Jackson, even though the name was changed. Mrs. Hilly convinced everyone that it was not about Jackson so everyone would not know that she ate the pie. The alienation of the colored people especially the maids that helped the white families changed to where they were being respected and paid more attention to although many of them lost their jobs due to Mrs. Hilly. Aibileen, Minny, and the other maids that helped write the book revealed to the society that they are not all like the way they are assumed to be. The Help revealed that they are the same as white people and that they deserve to be treated that way. Even if they lose their jobs, they still carry on with their everyday lives as they always