Chapter 15-16

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Chapter 15

1. relationships mothers

• negative => mothers are universally disappointed in their daughters.
  
• Charlotte Phelan: daughter might never get married 
• Miss Walters resents Hilly’s bossiness and condescending attitude. (Hilly puts her mother into a nursing home)
•  Miss Fredericks expresses constant disapproval of her daughter Elizabeth who is frightened of her

2. all people have value

• Aibileen: tells Mae Mobley stories every afternoon when it is time for the child’s nap. 
• shared humanity between Caucasians and African Americans. 

3. Jackson Country Club pool

• Elizabeth: never been to the club pool before + no member
• fears that people realize that she is not wealthy ("poor folk")
• afraid to be unfamiliar with the customs of the country club pool

4. Skeeter's tactic

• Skeeter uses flattery. (if she were really up to something, Hilly would have seen through her secrecy right away)

5. Elizabeth's personality

• parks at the far end of the parking lot at the swimming pool, => timid around people she feels are her superiors
• Elizabeth wants to be liked and avoids confrontation, especially with those who she feels will resist. (Skeeter's phone calls remain unanswered)

Chapter 16

1. community meeting

• The murder of Medgar Evers 
• some angry feelings and impatience
• solemn tone

2. Yule May

• went to college
• educated and cultured in ways that often go unrecognized by those outside of the community

3. Aibileen's reaction to seeing Yule May

• Educated people like Yule May remind Aibileen of how inaccurate the popular image of African American families in Jackson is. 
• <-> Hilly's Home Help Sanitation Initiative

4. promising hints

• Yule May: interested in being included in the interviews with Skeeter
• Aibileen had hesitated to ask her because Yule
  

May is Hilly’s maid (extra dangerous)