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.