She is expected to be married and to be having babies by the time she is 22 years old. Skeeter's mother considers it her duty to help her daughter, but her attempts are critical and Skeeter is a constant disappointment. Mrs. Phelan says that four years of college is more than enough for a woman. When Skeeter searches the newspaper for a job, she discovers that men are paid more for the same work. The path for white women seems just as narrowly defined as the path for black maids.
This incident shows the reader that she wants to be taken seriously by her colleagues. It also displays that Hilly deeply treasures her reputation because of her reaction towards the situation. On the other hand, Aunt Alexandra has also shown the reader signs that she values her family’s reputation. In chapter 23 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra did not allow Scout to play with Walter Cunningham because of his poor background. She said, “Because-he-is-trash, that’s why you can’t play with him.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, racism grudges on Maycomb Ville’s society. Families collared by agony, struggle everyday to break free from the chains of poverty. Domestic violence eclipses the town as it conceals beneath the dark shadows. Maycomb ville’s conflicts all revolt into a drastic nightmare.
Her arrogance is displayed early on when she threatens Skeeter’s position at the League after Skeeter questions her bathroom initiative, “I don’t think you ought to be joking around about the colored situation. Not if you want to stay on as editor of the League, Skeeter Phelan” (10). Hilly’s threat towards Skeeter demonstrates her desperation to remain in power and
Hilly Holbrook, the prime cause of Skeeter’s isolation, forced most everyone in her community to shun Skeeter. This did not just include Skeeter’s friends. Anyone who had relations with Hilly knew that they could not publicly associate with Skeeter. Even people who did not know Skeeter, such as Mrs. Celia Foote, learned to dislike Skeeter. Celia refused to speak to her because “they said she’s the biggest embarrassment this town’s ever seen.”
Which in the film it shows us that. This is shown by the maid Yule May Davis because she asks for some extra money to send her twin boys to college and then tries to say that she would work for free. Hilly does not like what Yule said at all. Hilly viewed herself as top notched and Yule as a maid with diseases. Skeeter thought it was wrong to treat people differently.
In The Help, Miss Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan takes many risks and has to make some very hard decisions that could seriously affect people other than herself. Throughout the story, Hilly Holbrook is extremely rude and difficult to handle. Being put in Skeeter's shoes, I definitely wouldn't have been friends with Hilly for as long as she was. I feel as though Skeeter was guilted into being ¨friends¨ with her because they grew up together.
At the time Ms Skeeter cannot comprehend the situation of what is going on, because of this reasoning Aibileen needs to walk home. It does not seem important although that was the only black bus available for her and the rest of them are for white people only. By no means Skeeter would never want Aibileen to miss her bus and have to walk home, that would be racially incorrect of her. Skeeter can’t comprehend how different her life is compared to maids and people of colour. She doesn’t have a proper understanding of how difficult their lives are, because of the separate but equal laws and regulations.
Hilly did in fact come for Minny and she came hard. Hilly had accused Minny of stealing her mother’s silver and had her fired. Now wherever Minny goes to get a job they turn her down because every white woman in town believes Hilly that Minny is a thief. Minny doesn’t take it well, on a call with Aibileen she exclaims, “She telling everybody in town I’m stealing! That’s why I can’t get no work!
With her new understanding that she should treat everyone equally, she knew that Jem was wrong about them being better than the Cunninghams, and that there isn’t four kinds of ‘folks’ in the Maycomb like Jem says, there’s just one, where everyone should equal ,but that’s not the case in Maycomb. This lesson was important for Scout to learn because it has allowed her to be fair and reasonable. Unlike Scout, most of the people in Maycomb have not learned this lesson. One example of this is when a black man named Tom Robinson was put on trial for being accused of raping a white girl name Mayella Ewell. “Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty…guilty…guilty..guilty…’I peaked at Jem:
She threatens Minny, Skeeter, and just about anyone who does not go along with her plans, or is associating with the black community For instance, when Yule May was denied of a raise to help her boys get into college from Ms. Hilly, she had no choice but to steal from Ms. Hilly. Consequently, Ms. Hilly found out, and sent Yule May to jail. It was because of Ms. Hilly’s lack of compassion for those with a different skin color than her that Yule May had to resort to
1. My favorite character is Miss Walters because she provides a comedic relief within the novel. Although she is portrayed as a clueless and crazy old women, she is not afraid to agitate Hilly and by constantly reminding her of the pie incident. “I may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget” (pg 391). 2.
Maybe we ought to just build you a bathroom outside Hilly ' '. With Skeeter 's loud outburst of that response, the reader sees that not everyone of Hilly 's high society friends are in support of the treatment of the black people. Later in the novel Skeeter says ' 'I want people to hear from your perspective ' ', through this declaration during one of her interviews with the maids, she willingly was ready to accept whatever happened if it meant for their perspective to be seen. With the evidence provided, Skeeter is seen to transition from a not so typical white woman to a rebel who wanted the world to hear the voices of the maids that
Because of complete isolation for the community of Jackson, and her loneliness leads to desperate acts to make friends such as; phoning the society women multiple times, showing up to their houses uninvited, and making a fool out of herself at the Benefit (biggest social event of the year). “They made me stand there like I was the vacuum salesman.” (The Help, 2011) This displays how unfairly Hilly treated not just African-Americans even her own
Although the black maids endure such indignity, none will share their experiences with Skeeter in fear of being discovered by the town’s whites. Aibileen is among those who refuse, but one day at church the preacher exhorts the congregation to have courage and speak the truth. He states that, "Courage isn't just about being brave. Courage is daring to do what is right in spite of the weakness of our flesh. And God tells us, commands us, compels us, to love."
