One of the main characters in the novel The Help written by Kathryn Stockett, was Minny Jackson. Minny Jackson was an African American maid, who lived in Jackson, Mississippi who worked for white families. Minny worked for Hilly Holbrook’s mother, Miss Walters, Hilly decided she wanted to put her mother in a home and have Minny come work for her. Minny refused and was fed up with Hilly so she decided to give Hilly the terrible awful. After the stunt Minny pulled from the terrible awful, Hilly made Minny’s life a living nightmare. Throughout the novel The Help, Minny presents herself as outspoken, brave, and bold.
Minny is very outspoken woman. When Minny and Miss Celia talked about Minny working there at the interview, Miss Celia mentioned that she wasn’t going to tell her husband about it. Minny had
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When Ablieen asked Minny to put her story in the book, she didn’t feel comfortable talking to Miss Skeeter and she was trying to set them up. Minny refused to talk to Miss Skeeter no matter what Ablieen said. She told Miss Skeeter that white people like her aren’t supposed to talk to the help. But Minny really showed her boldness when it came to Miss Hilly. Minny told Miss Hilly that she didn’t want to work for her because that would be putting her friend out of a job and Minny doesn’t want to do her friend like that. Minny looked for work for three weeks, Miss Hilly went and told others that Minny was a thief but Minny has never stole anything. Hilly also told Minny that nobody would want a sass-mouthing thieving nigra and she should work for her for free. So Minny went home and made one of her famous pies, a chocolate custard pie, she used Baker’s chocolate (Minny’s poop) and real vanilla her cousin brings from Mexico. And took it to Miss Hilly’s house, telling Hilly it was a peace offering and Hilly ate two slices of it. “I say that good vanilla from Mexico and then I go ahead. I tell her what else I put in that pie for her.” (Stockett