Chapters 27 - 29 of The Help

Chapters 27 - 29 of The Help

Chapter 27

• Skeeter thinks back to the toilet incident

• She hired people to put toilets on Hilly's lawn

Skeeter is shunned

• Elizabeth no longer speaks to her

• Hilly takes Skeeter's job as editor of the newsletter away

Bob Dylan and "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

• For the loser now

  Will be later to win

  For the times they are a-changin'

• These are lines from the song. This is a new genre, folk music.

• These times give Skeeter hope

Open Ended

When Skeeter hears these lines, "For the loser now / Will be later to win / For the times they are a-changin'", who might she think is the loser now? Explain

Poll

Stuart comes back to apologize to Skeeter and ask if he can dater her again. Would you date him again?

• Yes

• No

Constantine's story

• She takes her daughter up to an orphanage in Chicago as it is too hard for her to care for a child who looks white

• Skeeter realizes this is why Constantine might have been so close to her

Constantine's daughter upsets Skeeter's mother

• While having a party, the daughter, Lulabelle, mingles with the guests because she passes for white

• When the mother realizes who Lulabelle is, she is angry

• She tells Constantine that her daughter is never allowed back on the farm. Constantine leaves with her daughter.

Poll

Three weeks after leaving, Constantine dies. If you were the mother, would you have told Skeeter what happened?

• Yes

• No

Minny's choice

• She tells them to add the "terrible, awful story" so Hilly will tell everyone the story is not about them

Poll

If you were Minny, would you include the story of the pie?

• Yes

• No

Chapter 28

• Skeeter learns her mother has cancer

• Skeeter goes to New Orleans to go shopping and sees mini skirts (new fashion). She straightens her hair, starts dating Stuart, who proposes

Good and Bad News

• Skeeter tells Stuart about the book, so he breaks up with her again

• Skeeter's mother says she has decided not to die

Open Ended

Do you think Skeeter's mother will beat her cancer? Why or why not?

The book is going to be published

• Each maid gets $61.50

• The book will be published in six months

Open Ended

Why would the maids be happy yet nervous about the book being published?

Chapter 29

• Mae Mobley loves her younger brother, Ross

• She goes to pre-school, and her teacher tells her colored people are not that smart

• Mae Mobley tells Aibileen her teacher is not as smart as Aibileen

• Mae asks Aibileen why she is colored, and Aibileen it is the way God made her

The Book

• Not selling well

• People at church give a copy to Aibilieen with their signatures inside to show their appreciation

• A television show reviews the book, saying it is about Jackson. The female review says it is awful and women should not read it.

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Poll

If you were told a book was about your town and told a bunch of lies and was just trash, would you read it?

• Yes

• No