Quotes, The Help by Elizabeth Meyer https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2 5+ Important Quotes(: en-us 2018-07-02 17:15:10 UTC 2024-11-09 21:54:59 UTC hello@padlet.com "I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did." Pg. 3 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269179964 This quote is important because it shows how much the death of Aibileen's son impacted her. She not only is upset in the beginning, but she is throughout the remainder of the book, also. She tries to keep her mind off of him, but everything reminds her of him, even after years. ]]> 2018-07-02 17:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269179964 "Only 3 things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends." Pg. 7 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180135 This quote shows what the Bridge Club ladies talk about when they're all together.  People tend to talk mainly about what's most important to them. ]]> 2018-07-02 17:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180135 "I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation." Pg. 35 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180189 Racism was a big thing is the past to the point that whites didn't even have to speak for the blacks to know what they were going to say. The worst part is, it was never anything good. This shows how bad racism used to be.]]> 2018-07-02 17:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180189 "Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person." Pg. 73 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180344 Ugly isn't how you look, but how you act, how you treat others. It's who is inside you, either ugly or beautiful.]]> 2018-07-02 17:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180344 "Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?" Pg. 73 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180599 You have the choice to let peoples words hurt you or let it not bother you and you have to make that choice every day up until you die. In this book, the maids have to deal with all the harsh things that their bosses to say them, and they have to decide whether or not it's going to bring them down.]]> 2018-07-02 17:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180599 "Things ain't never gone change in this town, Aibileen. We living in hell, we trapped. Our kids is trapped." Pg. 230 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180786 Racism is something that will sadly never go away. People won't change what they believe and it'll be passed through families, maybe less, but never completely.]]> 2018-07-02 17:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269180786 "'I don't care about any of that stuff, anyway.' She kinda laugh and it hurts my heart. Cause everybody care. Black, white, deep down we all do." Pg. 34 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269181019 No matter who you are, what race, what age, everybody cares. Not everyone cares about the same things, but everyone cares about something. ]]> 2018-07-02 17:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269181019 "It ain't the color a the wrapping that count, it's what we is inside." Pg. 349 meyeref https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269181160 While racism occurs between blacks and whites, not all blacks are the same shade, and not all whites are the same shade. While the big difference is between only two colors, there are many more. The color of who you are is what people look at, and that isn't what should matter. What should matter is who the person actually is, how they act. The quote symbolizes this by using a present. It shows that when opening gifts, the wrapping paper isn't what's important, it's the gift inside that people care about. The outside just covers the gift and doesn't matter, just the contents do. So, why can't it be like that with humans, too?]]> 2018-07-02 17:42:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meyeref/3xw6saajgoj2/wish/269181160