Post #3

  So to sum up the rest of the book really. Miss Skeeter finally got Aibileen on board with writing the book The Help and Aibileen gets Minny one of her friends who is also a maid to agree to help with this book. Many series of events rolls out in the middle of the starting the book and finishing the book but some of the main points are that Miss Skeeter gets a boyfriend as well as Aibileen is attached to Mae Mobley more then ever and Minny is still working secretly for her new employer. So the book The Help is written and published and some bad reactions come out of it. One being that Minny and her husband get a divorce because he gets fired from his job because she was apart of the book and they fight until they cant take it anymore. Aibileen is fired and is threatened. As well as Miss Skeeter is trying to be sued for the book. The book becomes a best seller so Miss Skeeter can move out of her moms house and live on her own.

The voice as well as the diction the writer uses is very distinctive. Each narrator in the book has their own way of showing their personality and uniqueness. When Aibileen talks you can tell by the way her words flow and the different sayings that come out of her mouth she has been through a rough background. Her personality through this words shows that she is caring, hardworking, and just wants to make it to the next day. When Minny talks you can tell she does not put up with anything. The way her tone of her voice sounds and the way she talks and snaps back to people shows she has a tough and hard personality. When Miss Skeeter talks though you can tell that she is from a very elegant well mannered household where she still lives. They way her words flow and how she is a writer really comes out in her speech. Also you can tell that her personality is very much different then how her mother wants it to be. Each persons culture in this book really shapes how they believe the world should work. For example Aibileen does not believe that blacks should work or have to use a separate toilet and all these different things where as some other white lady would believe that is perfectly normal. Everything you do in this book all depends on the culture you are and how you perceive your culture.

Post #2

What I have read since the last post has not been a lot to share but some interesting points. Miss Skeeter got a job at their local newspaper. She is writing in the Miss Myrna column which is about cleaning. The problem with her being in charge of this cleaning column is that she does not know anything about cleaning and cannot answer any of the questions that are written into the column. To solve this problem Miss Skeeter decides to go and start asking Aibileen to help her answer the questions and write her column. So Aibileen agrees to this and helps Miss Skeeter with her newspaper column. Also in what I read Aibileen teaches Mae Mobley, the little girl she watches, how to go to the "big girl potty." By doing this though she has to take Mae Mobley to the black bathroom which then Mae Mobley wont go anywhere but that bathroom and her mom is not happy about that at all. One day Miss Skeeter comes to ask Aibileen a question at her house and she wants to write a book about the help and what working for a white women or white family is like. Aibileen does not want to be apart of this because she does not want to get in a large amount of trouble.
A couple examples of imagery that shows the characters culture is:
one is "did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire iron for accidentally using the white bathroom?"Aibileen is the one who states this quote. She is talking to Miss Skeeter telling her that she does not know the fear the blacks have to go through everyday. She is trying to explain to Miss Skeeter that her life is very fearful and careful of everything she does to the whites. Being a black is not easy and this shows to me an image of her town and her expressions and feelings she has as she goes through her everyday life. This shows you that her culture is so much more different then then Miss Skeeters and she is trying to show her that.
A second quote is "when I get to my car, I sink down into the soft Cadillac leather." This is showing the readers that she has money. She is obviously white and her culture is that she has has a good life and can walk the streets not feeling fearful of her life. She has a Cadillac which is a really nice car which pictures an image to me of her living in a really nice lovely home with nice furniture as well as many other nice things. As well as her having a nice family who can give her whatever she wishes to have and give her all of the opportunities in the world.
There are many other examples of imagery in this story that show the difference between white and the blacks culture so that is just two examples.

Post #1

     I am reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. So far in this book I have read about three different people. One of them is Aibileen, the second is Minny, and third is Miss Skeeter. Aibileen talks about her working and being a maid and different things she has experienced and heard through her work. Minny has just been hired to a new job and has to keep it a secret from the husband. She is teaching the woman how to cook and making her look like she can do things as a house wife. But as the chapter comes to a close the husband comes home early and Minny has to quickly hide. Miss Skeeter is a white woman who has graduated from college and cannot seem to be able to make her mom happy in anyway. She does not want to get married and does not want to do what her mom is telling her too. Instead she wishes she had the old maid Constatine back and wishes she could be a writer just like she had dreamt to be the whole time. Her mother on the other hand does not appreciate this choice the Miss Skeeter wishes to take.

  A paragraph from the book that really shows how this grammar and flow goes is:
"But I ain't never seen a baby yell like Mae Mobley Leefolt. First day I walk in the door, there she be, red-hot and hollering with the colic fighting that bottle like it's a rotten turnip. Miss Leefolt, she look terrified a her own child. 'What am I doing wrong? Why can't I stop it?"
In this book so far they are using a lot of different ways of speaking. In this chapter they have not an amazing choice of grammar usage and the way they talk. But as you get into other chapters some of their talking habits and grammar usage is very well put. This book uses a lot of dialogue as well as different usages of italics. This paragraph that I chose is one of the very first paragraphs in the book because it really stood out to me how different the uses of languages are in the different narrators of this book. So this different uses of the language and grammar make this book very well by showing you the different characters and the different surroundings the characters are in. How they learned and really shows who they are in their personalities. I feel as if they did not have these differences the book would simply be boring and confusing to which who was speaking and to whom.