The Help by Leigha Cummings https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a Important Quotes en-us 2018-07-30 15:07:52 UTC 2024-11-26 16:01:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png “Every 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?” 73 cummingslc https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456265 The criticism that the maids hear on a daily basis, would normally take a toll on many people. These maids have the thickest skin and are used to being bickered at. This quote explains how the maids are treated unfairly and wrong and just how they do it and how they get through it. ]]> 2018-07-30 15:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456265 “All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.” 74 cummingslc https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456378 In this quote the readers get an explanation why Skeeter is different than all of her friends and every girl in Jackson. Constantine had a huge impact on Skeeter's life and shaped her into the woman she is today. This quote shows the importance of the maids to the children they care for. ]]> 2018-07-30 15:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456378 "Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or speck a work-dirt on it." 176 cummingslc https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456618 This quote explains that shame ain't black, like they would feel ashamed to be in their own skin; yet they find shame by something as white as a new uniform without a showing that they have been working. They feel ashamed by something the white woman do]]> 2018-07-30 15:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271456618 "You'll sink like a stone for the time's a changin" 414 cummingslc https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271457158 On the way home from Aibileen's, Skeeter turns on the radio and explains this song is better than anything she's ever heard. It's a song by Bob Dylan that Skeeter gets so much relief from and feels like it's a sign from the future. This quote also casts foreshadowing for what will happen after the book is printed.]]> 2018-07-30 15:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271457158 “Growing like a weed,” Elizabeth said, looking out the window, and I thought, what an odd thing to compare your child to. A weed. 409 cummingslc https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271458473 In this quote you can compare the difference between the love for Mae Mobley from her own mother, Mrs. Leefolt, compared to Aibileen. It also shows how much the help means to the children, that they are more like a mother than a maid. Elizabeth never treats her daughter with love or gives her attention, Mae Mobley starts to call Aibileen her real mother.]]> 2018-07-30 15:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cummingslc/hch8qh1txo5a/wish/271458473