The Help 21 &22

"...she get to yapping on the phone a million miles a hour." p.129

• imagery
• hyperbole
• allegory
• oxymoron

What type of irony is this?“It is my job, Skeeter! You know well as I do, people won’t buy so much as a slice of pound cake from an organization that harbors racial integrationists!”“Hilly.” I just need to hear her say it. “Just who is all that pound cake money being raised for, anyway?”She rolls her eyes. “The Poor Starving Children of Africa!” p.127

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• simile

“There’s a clap of thunder…”p.117

• idiom
• allegory
• symbolism
• dramatic irony

"The pleats around her hips are stretched open like accordion bellows." p.127

• simile
• idiom
• metaphor
• analogy

Why is Skeeter suddenly afraid of what she is doing?

What does Mae Mobley tell Aibileen that makes her panic, and WHY does she panic?

Why did Skeeter REALLY leave town for three days?

Why did Mr. Leefolt come home for lunch? (read between the lines, WHAT is he really telling Aibileen and why?)

Explain the irony in the following passage:"'“It’s true. There are some racists in this town,” Miss Leefolt say.Miss Hilly nod her head, “Oh, they’re out there.”' p.131

"Skeeter look away from me, try to smile. “I don’t care about any of that ole stuff, anyway.” She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do." p. 133How is Skeeter more segregated even than the colored characters? Provide evidence