Chapter 13-14

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• HBO
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Chapter 13

1. Skeeter and Stuart

• Skeeter: angry. (1st date)
• Stuart claims: still emotionally stressed about his last girlfriend who left him. 
• Skeeter: refuses to forgive him but then goes on a date with him.

2. Skeeter: steals from library Jackson

• Skeeter: finds a booklet of Jim Crow laws -> many issues about racial separation. 

3. Skeeter's own experience

• => The booklet is divisive, bigoted, and unenlightened in exactly the same ways as Hilly’s initiative is. 
  

4. setting affects the plot

• The story takes place in the early 1960s, when Jim Crow laws were in full effect in much of the southern United States. 
• Segregation: central issue in the novel. 
• Beliefs relating to the inferiority of one race and superiority of another are shown throughout The Help and trigger the events

5. Hilly's attitude

• Hilly's attitude: ignorant + condescending and disrespectful
• Hilly: Ethiopians might use the money to get satanic tattoos.

6. new siginificance Skeeter's satchel 

• Skeeter's grandmother’s satchel (potentially dangerous documents): The book project manuscript =+ the booklet of Jim Crow laws +Skeeter’s response to Hilly’s Home Help Sanitation Initiative. 
• Skeeter’s reputation and social position would also be jeopardized...

6. Has Hilly seen the papers in the satchel?

• probably...
• "Hilly opens the door. Her mouth is tight and red. I look down at her hands. They are knotted together like ropes. I've arrived too late."

Chapter 14: Aibileen

1. Hilly's Home Help Sanitation

• Aibileen: reading it is like reading “something from the KKK.”
• Hilly’s initiative inadvertently helps to keep the book project going when Minny reads it.

2. Elizabeth <-> Hilly

• Hilly: attentive and loving toward her children. 
• Elizabeth: not an attentive mother + very bossy with Mae Mobley. The two women are opposite mothers

3. 2nd hand clothing

• The bag of clothes is from Hilly. Every garment in the bag is monogrammed with Hilly’s initials, H. W. H.
• => Aibileen feels that wearing such clothes would indicate that she is the property of Hilly Holbrook. 

4. Hilly - Jim Crow Laws

• Hilly: Jim Crow laws booklet indicates that Skeeter is actively supporting African Americans’ rights. 
• Furthermore, many people see it as a betrayal of the

community

5. actual historic events

• Medgar Evers is killed that night ->political activist and civil rights leader. 
• Evers’s assassination in Jackson increases the tension around the book project. 
• => People like Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter are potentially subject to serious harm.