The help- work by Ayala Rolla

The book cover

When looking at the books cover we can predict a lot of things about the story,
.the characters and the general message of the book
The first thing we can see is the difference between the black women to the
:white ones
Location the white women are sitting on the bench while the black women
.are standing
Outfit the white women are very well dressed looking very feminine in high
heels. The black women are wearing uniforms with aprons and the shoes are
.very simple
We can understand from these things that the time of the story is set when
racism toke a big place in America. The sentence "Change begins with a
whisper" made me things that the story set is the time when the civil rights
.movement begun in the 60's
In the book's cover we can see four women. The two women in the left are
black maids, talking to each other. The name of the woman in the middle is
Eugenia Skeeter Phelan, her location in the middle predict us her side in the
story- on one hand she is a white woman with rights, but on the other hand
she does not feel comfortable in this situation. The opposite is Hilly Holbrook
in the right- she sits very comfortable, she looks even bored. Her head
is turned in the opposite direction from the black women. We can predict that
hilly do not care about the black women, she even do not want to look at
.them

-"Change begins with a whisper"

I think that the meaning "whisper" in the top sentence in the cover is that
when the black maids start to tell Skeeter their stories it was a secret. The
.result cause to a change but it begins in a secret

The book title

:I think the title of the book represent a couple things
First thing, "The Help" represent the black women job- they help to the white
.women race their kids, cleaning the house and cook
The second thing the title represent the help that Skeeter give to the black
women- with her book she rise awareness about their life and their daily
struggle. On the other hand I think that the title represent in the same way the
help that the black women give to Skeeter by tell her their stories, without their
.stories she could not write her book

Color of the cover

The color of the cover is yellow. The yellow is so "strong" that you can barely
see the trees in the back because they yellow instead of green. I think it
represent that is unnatural that one color is above than the other- it is wrong
that the white race is above the black race. It is a little bit hard to notice that
the green color that you expect that the trees will be express in the color of
the bench- where the white women sit at. In my opinion it represent that the
white race stopped the black race from growing and again we can see that
.Hilly in the right feel fine with it, and Skeeter is uncomfortable

Summary
.The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett
The story is about African American Maids working in white households in
.Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s
Aibileen is an African-American maid who cleans houses and cares for the
young children of various white families. Her first job since her own 24-yearold son died from an accident on his job is tending the Leefolt household and
caring for their toddler, Mae Mobley. Minny is Aibileen's confrontational friend
who frequently tells her employers what she thinks of them, resulting in having
being fired from nineteen jobs. Minny's most recent employer was Mrs.
.Walters, mother of Hilly Holbrook
.Hilly is the social leader of the community and head of the Junior League
She is the nemesis of all three main characters.
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is the daughter of a prominent white family
whose cotton farm employs many African-Americans in the fields, as well as
in the household. Skeeter has just finished college and comes home with
dreams of becoming a writer. Her mother's dream is for Skeeter to get
married. Skeeter frequently wonders about the sudden disappearance of
Constantine, the maid who raised her. She had been writing to Skeeter while
she was away at college and her last letter promised a surprise upon her
homecoming. Skeeter's family tells her that Constantine abruptly quit, then
went to live with relatives in Chicago. Skeeter does not believe that
Constantine would just leave and continually pursues anyone she thinks has
.information about her to come forth, but no one will discuss the former maid
The life that Constantine led while being the help to the Phelan family leads
Skeeter to the realization that her friends' maids are treated very differently
from how the white employers are treated. She decides (with the assistance
of a publisher) that she wants to reveal the truth about being a colored maid in
Mississippi. Skeeter struggles to communicate with the maids and gain their
.trust