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Chapter 11: Miss Skeeter
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1. 1st meeting at Aibileen's house
both: nervous
Skeeter: uncomfortable driving into the neighborhood +
novice
in interviews.
Aibileen: never had a white guest in her house -> worries that they will be caught.
The interview does not go well. (awkward)
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2. Aibileen's responses 1st interview
agitated, very nervous
=> rushes to the restroom to vomit.
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3. Elizabeth envies her sister in California who has live-in domestic help.
(When Elizabeth was visiting her older sister, she)
“hardly had to see Mae Mobley at all.”
=> Elizabeth is a
selfish person
and a bad mother
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4. metaphorical significance the hair product called Shinalator
straightens curly hair
(symbolically too!)
=>
result end after one washing -> won't change her forever
;
She will follow her own path, to become a writer
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5. What idea does Aibileen come up with to help the interviews along?
Write down
her comments by herself,and then read them aloud while Skeeter types them.
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6. Aibileen’s first story goes well, but is not finished.
white child getting his fingers cut off in a fan.
Aibileen took the boy to a black hospital and needed to lie about the boy’s race due to racial prejudice.
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7. Aibileen uses a metaphor to tell Skeeter that she has found a way make the interviews work.
“
I know how to make the teapot stop rattling.”
=> has found a way to calm down enough to
answer Skeeter’s questions and move on with the book project.
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Chapter 12
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1. What story does Skeeter use to get her mother’s car without explaining
volunteer work at a church.
irony
here: lie <-> church
The book project: a
secret
to everyone in Skeeter’s circle.
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2. Skeeter offers
to do something to help Aibileen improve her writing.
Skeeter offers to check out books from the library in town for Aibileen.
library: follows the
Jim Crow laws
: black people can't borrow books
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3. examples of the power of writing
• Aibileen’s
written prayers
• Writing answers to Skeeter’s questions ->
stops the teapot from rattling
• Skeeter writes with success to Elaine Stein in an effort to find her own identity as a writer.
Slide 12 - Slide
4. What does Skeeter notice about how Hilly speaks to African Americans?
raises her voice three octaves higher
Hilly also smiles as if she is speaking to a child.
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5. Skeeter's frustration/Aibileen's response
has to interview at least 12 maids (+ done by January)
Aibileen asked 31 maids; all declined
Aibileen: "Please don't give up on me!"
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6. End of chapter...
Minny: "This ain't no game"
Medgar Evers carport was blown up (for talking)
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