The Help

Question 1

author of The Help

Answer 1

Kathryn Stockett

Question 2

When and where was Kathryn Stockett born?

Answer 2

Born 1969 in Jackson Mississippi

Question 3

What connected her life to this book

Answer 3

• African American maid- Demetrie
• Source of comfort to Stockett
• Passed away when she was 16

Question 4

9/11 and this book

Answer 4

• Experienced 9/11
  
  • Sad experience
  • homesick
• Started writing from Demetrie’s prespective
• Realized what a sad life she must have led

Question 5

how long did it take to write the book

Answer 5

5yrs

Question 6

where does the book take place

Answer 6

Take place in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960s

Question 7

what was happening in the 1960s in America

Answer 7

• Under the Jim-Crow laws that imposed racial segregation
• seperate hospitals, bathrooms, graveyards and even schools
  Civil rights movement

Question 8

focused on what part of the civil rights movement

Answer 8

Focuses on an especially low point of the civil-rights movement the violent murder of activist Medgar Evers.

Question 9

When was the book published

Answer 9

2009

Question 10

What is the genre of the book

Answer 10

historical fiction

Question 11

Literary period of the book

Answer 11

contemporary

Question 12

Quote, key idea: white people deceive themselves into thinking that all black people are activists.

Answer 12

“but the truth is, I don’t care about voting (…). What i care about is, if in ten years, a white lady will call my girls dirty and accuse them of stealing the silver.”

Question 13

quote about maids and white children they raise

Answer 13

it come in every white child’s life—when they start to think that colored folks ain’t as good as whites.

Question 14

quote about apperance being deceitful skeeter

Answer 14

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

Question 15

quote about the divisions in society
Aibeleen

Answer 15

Lines between black and white ain’t there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago.

Question 16

Main point of deception in “The Help”

Answer 16

Judging people off of their appearence

Question 17

examples of deception of appearance

Answer 17

• Skeeter being called ugly by her mother but being in the end the one that accepts the black maids
• The black maids being seen as worst, lesser than, disgusting etc for their skin colour
• Celia being judged by Minny thinking she’s weak due to her tight clothes and makeup but then turning out to be strong and corageous

Question 18

Skeeter

Answer 18

Writes a book about ending racism

Question 19

Aibeleen

Answer 19

Works as a maid, son died in a car accident

Question 20

Minny

Answer 20

mother of 5, also a maid (talks back)

Question 21

Hilly

Answer 21

Friend of Skeeter, antagonist, “black people carry differente diseases from us”

Question 22

Celia

Answer 22

She had several miscarriages, outside in the social circle

Question 23

Stuart

Answer 23

Skeeter’s bf

Question 24

Deception (Black maids)

Answer 24

They are forced to live a life of deception as they can’t show their real feelings to keep their jobs

Question 25

Quote deception of Black Maids

Answer 25

“you is kind. You is strong. You is important”

Question 26

Deception Skeeter

Answer 26

She performs a type of deception due to secretly meeting with the maids to write the book whilst simultaneously keeping friends such as Hilly.

Question 27

Deception Minny

Answer 27

Hides her employment from her abusive husband

Question 28

Individual deception highlights what?

Answer 28

struggles within the rigid societal hierarchy