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Mr. Samuel Jaja's The Help

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This book report is written for Mr. Samuel Jaja’s Class. The Help. The book was written by Kathryn Socket. This book contains 464 pages and was published by the Penguin Books Company on February 10, 2009. This story has been translated into three different languages and adapted into a movie. I chose to read this book because it was an assignment by Mr. Jaja, but it was also recommended by my classmates. In this story, the main characters are a 22-year-old reporter that graduated from Ole Miss University and returns to her cotton plantation in Longleaf, to find out that her lovely maid had left and to understand why she left, since no one wants to tell her why, she works for the newsletter called Junior League and follows her mother's advice about how to find a man and start a new family, but the truth is that she dreams of being a writer, there are 2 maids that fight to get their rights and want to be respected by others, these maids play an important role in the story working as narrators and protagonists of the story. One of them has a tender affection for Mrs. Leefolt's 2-year-old daughter Mae and is involved in the creation on the book domestics in Jackson, Mississippi, and the other one has a mouth that has gotten her into trouble too many times. …show more content…

Celia Foote, she's the newest resident of the community and winds up hiring Minny since she cannot cook and initially tries to hide her involvement with the house cleaning and cooking for her husband. Elizabeth Leefolt, who employed Aibileen and is best friend with Hilly and Skeeter, is easily managed by Hilly and is unable to be an excellent mother to her daughter Mae

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