In the novel, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, the exposition introduces the novel’s three main characters, describing where they live within the society of Jackson, Mississippi and their characteristics. The exposition begins with the three main characters; Miss Skeeter Phelan, a white socialite recently returning from college, who wants to write. The woman who opens the book is Aibileen who it a black maid in work for Skeeter’s friend, Elizabeth, keeping house and raising her seventeenth baby, Mae Mobley; and Minny who has trouble keeping her opinions in her head. In fact, she gets fired by Miss Hilly, another one of Skeeter's friends for this very reason and goes to work for a so-called social outcast, Celia. The narrative hook comes about when the reader finds out that the overruling issue of the story involves a chauvinistic young white woman in 1960s Jackson Mississippi who gives more to social pressure …show more content…
In the rising action of the story, Skeeter learns from Aibileen that her only son, named Treelore was killed in a tragic accident; he had wanted to write a book about what it was like for a colored man growing up in Mississippi. It is this encounter that plants the seed in Skeeter's mind to write a book about the experiences of black maids working for white women in Mississippi. Aibileen works hard for Miss Elizabeth, and lives alone. When Skeeter first attempts to ask Aibileen to help her write the book, she refuses, afraid of the dangers that could arise from the experience. Eventually she becomes too bitter to keep quiet, Aibileen agrees to