MINNY

Question 1

Terrible awful

Answer 1

‘ i give her what she deserve’

Question 2

Domestic abuse

Answer 2

‘he beat me stone-cold sober’

‘how can I love a man who beats me raw’

‘they think big, strong Minny..but they don’t know the PATHETIC MESS i turn into WHEN LEROY BEATS ME’’

Question 3

conformity

Answer 3

(yanks up her stocking)

‘look like a maid who does as she’s told’

‘tuck it in Minny’

Question 4

‘why you even care? you white?

Question 5

‘Things aint never gone change in this town Aibileen. We living in hell, we trapped.Our kids is trapped’

Question 6

‘i just want things to be better for my children’

Question 7

‘Plenty of black men leave their families behind like trash in a dump, but its just not something the colored women do. We’ve got the kids to think about’

Question 8

‘I like telling my stories. It feels like I’m doing something about it

Answer 8

optimism, change for future generations

Question 9

‘minny got a mouth on her’

Answer 9

being outspoken pays a price- jobless

Question 10

‘i don’t ask.Im just the maid’

Question 11

‘fat and short and strong’

‘her skin is blacker than Aibileen by ten shades’

‘minny don’t stop sweating’
- comedic relief that dehumanises and bestialises Minny

Answer 11

parataxis ‘repeated and’ rigidity of expectations that force conformity