The Help

Unknown

Category: Novel

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Novel

Newly graduated from Ole Miss with a degree in English but neither an engagement ring nor a steady boyfriend, Eugenia Skeeter Phelan returns to her parents cotton farm in Jackson. Although its 1962, during the early years of the civil rights movement, she is largely unaware of the tensions gathering around her town., Skeeter is in some ways an outsider. Her friends, bridge partners and fellow members of the Junior League are married. Most subscribe to the racist attitudes of the era, mistreating and despising the black maids whom they count on to raise their children. Skeeter is not racist, but she is naive and unwittingly patronizing. When her best friend makes a political issue of not allowing the help to use the toilets in their employers houses, she decides to write a book in which the communitys maids their names disguised talk about their experiences., Fear of discovery and retribution at first keep the maids from complying, but a stalwart woman named Aibileen, who has raised a