Thursday, November 29, 2012

What will Happen? The Help


Imagine doing something so criminal, and scandalous that you couldn’t tell anybody about it well that’s what skeeter and Abilene along with the other maids do in the story the help. The Help by Kathryn Stockett is about a girl named skeeter that write a book on what it’s like to be a maid in Jacksonville Mississippi, along with the help of her few maid friends Abilene and Minny. However I am only in the middle of the story so I don’t know what happens at the end. At the end I think that Minny and Abilene and Skeeter write the story and it turns into a really good story and everyone reads it but there becomes an issue because everybody finds out who is writing the story

One reason that my prediction could be accurate is because so many people are writing it that it becomes hard to keep it a secret because they have to keep it from their employers, families, friends, and anyone they come in contact with so it is probably hard to keep it from everyone you know so they probably tell someone by accident. Another reason that the secret could have gotten out was because the editor Elaine Stein knew that Skeeter was writing the book and that a few maids have decided to help her so she could have told someone and that secret would have spread very quick.
A story that the plot I predicted reminded me of  Clover by Dori Sanders it’s a book about a girl who has to make it on her own with her stepmother in a racist community and you can’t really say a lot about your life or what you’re doing because you would be judged on it.

I think that my prediction is pretty accurate because the events that are happening in the story tell me that it could end badly for Skeeter and the maids. Although I can never be sure if that’s how it really ends there could be a twist at the end. There will also be many other details in the story. I am pretty sure my prediction is accurate.          

Monday, November 19, 2012

3:15 Prediction


Troy came out looking tired like he was half awake as Molly asked him if he was ok  he just walked away ignoring her Mr. Mason came out of the class and watched him walk away looking regretful molly had scurried off as soon as she heard him coming but she knew that it wasn’t just for today he would be like this forever.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

How Did Skeeter change in the help?


Imagine being treated differently every day just because of the color of your skin. When Hilly talks about the toilet law right in front of Abilene I can’t imagine how she must have felt. Skeeter in The Help by Kathryn Stockett have changed the maids view of society just as they have changed her.

Skeeter was raised in a town that was prejudice everybody had an African American maid but what Skeeter didn’t realize was the prejudices of her town. She refused to believe how evil her town was to African Americans. When she had her maid Constantine who she had a very special relationship with because she raised her she didn’t realize how mean everyone was to her just because the color of her skin.  But she didn’t  know why she was different from everybody else and didn’t hear what people said about her and other African Americans behind their backs.  

She changes the maids point of views of society because she shows them that they should be whoever they want to be and they don’t have to just be maids. That they could change Jackson Mississippi forever because just because they were a certain color doesn’t mean that they can’t accomplish things. and the only thing that’s different about them from the rest of the world is the color of their skin and they shouldn’t be treated the way they are. 

The maids changed her view of society because they opened up her eyes to how nasty the town can be.  How mean people are to the maids and how they’re treated and skeeter kind of puts herself in their shoes, realizing how mean her friends and family could be to their maids.

Skeeter changed because she decided to interview Abilene and it opened up her eyes to see the true prejudices of her upbringing. She changed the maids view of society just as much as they changed her.  She learned that color does not define who you are and what you can accomplish. Skeeter started out as a rich person not exactly like her friends but close and after she wrote her book she turned into someone else. That’s really what changed Skeeter: her idea to write about something that crossed everybody’s mind but no one was brave enough to talk about it.