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      <description>The Help Characters&#39; Descriptions and Facts</description>
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         <title>Aibileen</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Aibileen is an African American woman that raises children - white children, usually.</p><p><br/></p><p>2. In this story she is taking care of Mae Mobley, Elizabeth Leefolt's daughter. </p><p><br/></p><p>3.Mae Mobley is the 17th baby she has taken care of. </p><p><br/></p><p>4. Aibileen had a son, Treelore who died at 24.  </p><p><br/></p><p>5.Aibileen works for Miss Leefolt. Aibileen and Mae Mobley have a great relationship unless Mae and her mother. She is being paid 95 cents an hour by Miss Leefolt. </p><p><br/></p><p>6.Aibileen has a neighbor, who lets her neighbor plant in her garden, and that neighbor allows her to have some of her food, which is how she mainly eats. She gets paid 172 dollars a month, and after bills, groceries clothes, etc; she only has 13.50 to use for extra things. </p><p><br/></p><p>7.She had a husband, Clyde, who cheated on her with a girl nicknamed Cocoa. </p><p><br/></p><p>8.Aibileen is very smart, but she dropped out of school to help her mother work in the 7th grade. </p><p><br/></p><p>9.She has 2 sisters, Inez and Mable who live in Port Gibson, but they haven't been mentioned in the story yet.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:26:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Mae Mobley</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Mae Mobley is the daughter of Mr. Raleigh and Miss Elizabeth Leefolt. </p><p><br/></p><p>2.She is mainly being taken care of by Aibileen. </p><p><br/></p><p>3.She was born in the morning on a Sunday in August 1960. </p><p><br/></p><p>4.In the story right now, she is two years old. </p><p><br/></p><p>5.She has big, brown eyes, and honey-like curls. </p><p><br/></p><p>6.Apparently she is a little chubby. </p><p><br/></p><p>7.Her mother, Elizabeth neglects her and doesn't treat her nicely. </p><p><br/></p><p>8.She gets slapped by her mother, so this is an example of why Mae doesn't have a great relationship with her mother. </p><ol start="9"><li><p>Mae Mobley's teacher is Miss Taylor </p></li><li><p>Mae Mobley gets taught by Aibileen about how black and white people may look different but that doesn't mean that one is right or wrong and they are all equally important </p></li><li><p>Mae Mobley teaches her little brother black events - like when people poured food and coffee onto their heads when asked for food, and sitting in the back of the bus to represent Rosa Parks </p></li><li><p>Mae Mobley cries a lot and gets really sad when Aibileen walks away from her job, fearful she is going to take care of another child </p></li><li><p><br/></p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:27:02 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Skeeter</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Skeeter is the editor of the Junior League. </p><p><br></p><p>2.Her name is Eugenia Phelan, but called Skeeter. </p><p><br></p><p>3.She has been best friends with Elizabeth and Hilly since elementary school. </p><p><br></p><p>4.She had a good relationship growing up with her maid, Constantine, but according to her mom, Charlotte, she left to help with her family, and is now being replaced by Pascagoula. </p><p><br></p><p>5.Her mother wants her to be beautiful, but Skeeter doesn't consider herself pretty in comparison to her friends.</p><p><br></p><p>6. She has kinky white blond hair, fair skin -  very tall, like almost 6 foot tall. </p><p><br></p><p>7.Her mother also wants her to find a job, particularly a bank teller to find a husband. </p><p><br></p><p>8.In the book right now, she is 23 years old. </p><p><br></p><p>9.She is called a  skeeter because she was super long and very thin at birth, and continues to be as she grows up. </p><p><br></p><p>10.Born in Baptist Hospital. </p><p><br></p><p>11.Currently works for Mr. Golden in place for Miss  Myrna's cleaning section in the paper, and gets offered 10 dollars every monday. </p><p><br></p><p>12.Apparently started smoking cigarettes at 14. </p><p><br></p><ol start="13"><li><p>Goes out with Stuart Whitworth, first date was bad, but the second one was good. </p></li><li><p>Writes the book 'The Help' on maids and their stories and their bosses </p></li><li><p>Gets invited to work in NY </p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:27:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Minny</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Sassy, people like hearing her stories because she is funny. Likes to gossip about people and get people laughing. </p><p><br/></p><p>2.Short and big, curly black hair. </p><p><br/></p><ol start="3"><li><p>17 years younger than Aibileen - (most descriptive details found on page 15, chapter 2). </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>Minny is a maid and a very good cook.</p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>In the bridge club.</p></li><li><p>Cooks for Miss Walter </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>Miss Hilly suspects that Minny isn't feeding Miss Walter as much as she used to </p></li><li><p> Is accused of taking an antique lamp.</p><p><br/></p></li><li><p> Currently working for Celia Foote. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p> Gets in a fight with Celia, practically saves her from dying from her fourth miscarriage. </p></li><li><p>Her husband, Leroy is abusive and beats her. </p></li><li><p>Leroy gets fired because Hilly asked his boss, William Holbrook to fire him and blames it on Minny </p></li><li><p>Has five children with a baby on the way. Kindra, Sugar, Felicia, Leroy Jr, and Benny</p></li><li><p>Minny convinces skeeter to move to New York for her job as skeeter doesn't have much left in Jackson </p></li><li><p>Her husband says that he doesn't know what she will become if he doesn't beat her - probably fearful she will stand up for herself and take him down </p></li><li><p>Her sister is Octavia Spencer and she is going to be staying with her until she finds a place of her own </p></li><li><p>Minny only gets beat by her husband when she isn't pregnant, so her having her baby kind of saved her </p></li><li><p>Minny also gets locked in the bathroom because of Hilly; I think she found out that Minny was in the book and told William to fire Leroy. Leroy says he is going to light the house on fire with him in it </p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:27:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Miss Leefolt </title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Miss Leefolt has a daughter, Mae Mobley. She neglects Mae Mobley like its nothing and barely pays her any attention. </p><ol start="2"><li><p>She is also married to Raleigh Leefolt. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>In the junior league. 23 years old. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>She is skinny - like a fourteen year old boy. Thin, brown hair - see through. Her face is described to look like the red devil on the red hot candy box, with a pointy chin. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>She is bossy, easily manipulated by Miss Hilly.</p><p><br/></p></li><li><p> She is friends with Hilly and Skeeter. Pays Aibileen 95 cents an hour. </p></li><li><p> She is good at sewing. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>I think Celia Foote married her ex- boyfriend, Johnny. </p><p><br/></p></li><li><p>She gets pregnant again but is not happy about it. </p></li><li><p>Her new son is named Ross but everyone usually refers to him as Li'l Man </p></li><li><p>When Aibileen gets fired, Miss Leefolt just lets her get fired as Hilly was the one who found out about her being in the book and accused her of taking silver, but didn't steal it. </p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:27:34 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Hilly Holbrook</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Hilly is in charge of making the new bathroom for colored people - the Home Help Sanitation Initiative and I'm pretty sure the Junior League. </p><p><br/></p><p>2.Her mom is Miss Walter. </p><p><br/></p><p>3.She has a round face, olive-colored skin, and freckles/moles. </p><p><br/></p><p>4.She also apparently wears a lot of plaid. </p><p><br/></p><p>5.Hilly doesn't like Celia as she is very desperate to get into the Junior League, and she thinks Celia is tacky. </p><p><br/></p><p>6.She also thinks that her mother is malnourished as she has become thinner, and because of her thought that Minny isn't cooking as much for Miss Walter  anymore. </p><p><br/></p><p>5.Kind of sassy and bossy, when Hilly announced her colored bathroom idea, Skeeter suggested they build a bathroom for Hilly outside, probably as a joke and Hilly gets all defensive, threatening to kick Skeeter out of the junior league. </p><p><br/></p><p>6Hilly spreads a rumor that Minny stole something from her - I forgot what it was called but it's like a vintage lamp? </p><p><br/></p><p>7.Very rude and manipulative. To her "friends" and her mom especially, calling her old and useless and her mother just brushes it off and doesn't take it personal </p><p><br/></p><ol start="8"><li><p>Leads the Benefit event and congratulates everyone who contributed; but in a weird way. Not really giving them much credit - just glancing at them and pointing out that they can relate to the Poor Starving Children of Africa in an obvious, racist way.  </p></li><li><p>Maid is Yule May  </p></li><li><p>Eats Minny's poop while not knowing it </p></li><li><p>She thinks that Celia signs her up for the pie auction and thinks that she knows that she ate Minny's poop; so that's why she freaks out at the party  </p></li><li><p>Hilly has 2 children; Heather and William Jr. </p></li></ol><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:27:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Miss Walter</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Hilly's mom, quite nice to Hilly but Hilly is not too respectful to her mom</p><p><br></p><p>2.Malnutritioned - according to Miss Hilly. Very thin, old and frail</p><p><br></p><p>3.Has food cooked for her by Minny.</p><p><br></p><ol start="4"><li><p>Signs up Hilly for the pie auction thing to mock her of once eating Minny's.....</p></li><li><p>Has been asked by Hilly multiple times to fire her cook, Minny </p></li><li><p>Is the person who every suspects Minny stole a candelabra from </p></li><li><p>Fires Minny, I think  </p></li><li><p>Kind of unassertive towards Hilly. Whenever Hilly snaps at Miss Walter, or talks rudely to her she just brushes it off. Doesn't really discipline Hilly, and if I think she did when she was growing up, Hilly wouldn't be as stuck up as she is </p></li><li><p>Pretty lonely as she is getting older </p></li><li><p>Involved in chapter 2 when they are calling Celia when she is asking about getting a job. (Page 31) </p></li></ol><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-06 15:28:04 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Celia Foote</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li><p>Celia married Miss Leefolt's ex boyfriend, Johnny. </p></li></ol><p><br/></p><p>2.She wants to be a part of the Junior League but people deny her. People think she is tacky. </p><p><br/></p><p>3.She is apparently built/looks like Marilyn Monroe. Yellow hair, wears tacky clothes - like pink pantsuits. </p><p><br/></p><p>4.She wants to be able to cook - not too good at it. 22 or 23 years old - around the same age as Skeeter, Elizabeth, and Hilly. </p><p><br/></p><ol start="5"><li><p>Celia is from Sugar Ditch Mississippi, in Tunica County.</p></li></ol><p><br/></p><p>6. Celia is polite to people, Minny for example, offering her a cold drink, which was unusual for a white person to treat a black person like that. </p><p><br/></p><ol start="7"><li><p>Celia has a large home - castle-like, gray brick - 5 bedrooms and bathrooms, blue swimming pool. </p></li></ol><p><br/></p><ol start="8"><li><p>Celia has had four miscarriages.  </p></li></ol><p><br/></p><ol start="9"><li><p>Celia has a dark past - nearly kills the naked man outside of her house</p></li></ol><p><br/></p><p>10.Celia confronts Hilly about her thinking Celia stole Johnny from back in college </p><ol start="11"><li><p>Her full name is Celia Rae Foote</p></li></ol><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-02-28 15:05:18 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Mister Johnny</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1.Celia Foote's husband. </p><p><br></p><p>2.Used to be Hilly's boyfriend in college. </p><p><br></p><p>3.Walked in on Minny cleaning; has an axe with him and Minny gets scared?  </p><p><br></p><ol start="4"><li><p>A great husband to Celia. Begs for her to not leave him, sticks up for her - like when his friend started bad mouthing her at the Benefit event, and is proud, kind, and supportive of her. Doesn't judge her for her extravagant fashion taste, and her habits and things she's been through </p></li><li><p>  Finds out about all of Celia's pregnancies and miscarriages and is calm about it</p></li><li><p> Finds out that Celia wants to leave Jackson Mississippi because of all that she has done but Mister Johnny breaks down and begs her not to leave</p></li><li><p>  Apart of like this deer hunting group</p></li><li><p>Originally only knows about her first miscarriage</p></li></ol>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2024-03-15 13:07:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Stuart Whitworth</title>
         <author>oversoph</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<ol><li><p>He is Skeeter's date, recommended by Hilly.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>He is kind of a jerk in the beginning, isn't ready to date again, and kind of disrespects Skeeter on their date. </p></li><li><p>Used to date a woman named Patricia - was willing to get back with her but found out she cheated on him with a civil rights activist so they were no longer able to date  </p></li><li><p>Stuart Has Skeeter meet his parents </p></li><li><p>He rejects Skeeter for proposing to him because she wrote the book </p></li><li><p>In Chapter 33, Skeeter's perspective, he moves his oil company to new Orleans; so he is doing pretty good without Skeeter</p></li><li><p>He was taking her out for dates every Friday </p></li><li><p>His dad is a segergration senator  </p></li><li><p>Kind of an alchoholic and not a gentleman in the beginning.</p></li><li><p>He breaks up with Skeeter in worry that her writing the book could somehow ruin his and his father's reputation.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p><br/></p>]]></description>
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