The Help: Synopsis
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a fictional story about black maids working for white families during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. The main character is Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, an aspiring writer with an overbearing mother, who has returned home from college to the family cotton plantation to discover that her cherished nanny and maid, Constantine, has vanished and no one will reveal why. While away at Ole Miss, Skeeter applied to a publishing company called Harper and Row in New York. The senior editor of the company, Elaine Stein, sends Skeeter a letter telling her that she admires her ambition, but that she needs more experience. A few days later, Skeeter gets a job writing the housekeeping column “Mrs. Myrna”
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a fictional story about black maids working for white families during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. The main character is Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, an aspiring writer with an overbearing mother, who has returned home from college to the family cotton plantation to discover that her cherished nanny and maid, Constantine, has vanished and no one will reveal why. While away at Ole Miss, Skeeter applied to a publishing company called Harper and Row in New York. The senior editor of the company, Elaine Stein, sends Skeeter a letter telling her that she admires her ambition, but that she needs more experience. A few days later, Skeeter gets a job writing the housekeeping column “Mrs. Myrna”