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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