Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world. Azteca | Humpty Alexander Dumpty | So she is slaving away on a book that will blow the lid off the suffering endured by black maids in Jackson, Miss. Hilly doesn’t realize that by perpetuating racist myths, institutional inequality, and throwing Yule May in jail, she too is a “real racist.” Astrid Hofferson | AAARRRGGHH!!! Skeeter is bold, fearless, and she doesn't buy into the myths that black people are dirty and have diseases that are poison to white people. Sounding decades older than Skeeter even though the two were college roommates, Hilly shrieks villainously about the virtues of segregation and the rectitude of Mississippi’s politicians. Expectations notwithstanding, it’s not the black maids who are done a disservice by this white writer; it’s the white folk. Ozzie | Miss Skeeter hair “is kinky, more public than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay. Miss Skeeter is an persistence young woman who wants to do more with her life than just get married and have children, and much of her personality was influenced my her maid Constantine, whom she especially bonded. Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, Constantine. Ruffnut Thorston | Nuffink Haddock | She is exhausted. Nicholas St. North | „ ~ Skeeter to Stuart.. Eugenia Phelan, most known as her nickname Skeeter is the main protagonist of the Kathryn Stockett's best-seller novel, The Help. Alan Abernathy | Fishlegs Ingerman | George Beard | Miss Skeeter is eager to become a writer and sends in her résumé to Elaine Stein, a female editor at. Stefano | But brave, tenacious Skeeter is different. Toothless | Netossa | Dr. Cockroach | Viktor Navorski | Spirit | Jamie Bennett | Minion | Light Fury | Garby | Tiger | Gobber | Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Conrad | Sherman | “Mississippi is like my mother,” she writes in an afterword to “The Help.” And you will see, after your wrestling match with this problematic but ultimately winning novel, that when it comes to the love-hate familial bond between Ms. Stockett and her subject matter, she’s telling the truth. She is also extremely tall for a woman at that time. Babs | Alex | Madagascar Heroes | Mac | The third narrator and protagonist, Skeeter is a young white college graduate who comes from a wealthy Southern family. The tide of soapsuds rises as Skeeter comes across a copy of Jim Crow laws and is galvanized into action; as Skeeter the liberal-minded spinster begins dating the son of an intolerant local politician; as Skeeter begins wondering what happened to Constantine, the maid who lovingly raised her; and as both Aibileen and Minny become increasingly privy to the secrets of their employers’ households. Kolivan | Sarmoti | Rain | The Missing Link | Meatlug | At one point Skeeter hears a strange new guy, Bob Dylan, singing a strange new song, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” and finds herself full of optimism. Jurassic Park Heroes | “The reporter seems to think it’ll be solved without much fuss.”. Her early relationship with Constantine … She fears, somewhat jokingly, that like Boo, she'll choose to stay inside to hide from the ugliness of society. In terms of Skeeter's story, The Help is a coming-of-age novel. Blinky Galadrigal | Christy Fimple | After finishing college, she comes back to live with her mother and father on their cotton plantation. Oogway | Ernie Smuntz | Though “The Help” might well have veered off into violent repression of these maids’ outspokenness (one character is blinded for having accidentally used a whites-only bathroom), Ms. Stockett doesn’t take it there. Well, Skeeter arranges for dozens of toilets to be dumped on Hilly's lawn, and got a big laugh out of us, at the very least. Queen Angella | Archie, See Also Melman | E. Aster Bunnymund | Zadra | All of Jackson’s post-sorority girls from Ole Miss will be up in arms if Skeeter’s tell-all book sees the light of day. Queen Tuya | Is she ironing pleats? Penny Peterson | Moses | Whenever she felt down, Constantine was always there to make her feel at home. Sid | King Julien XIII | Bunty | Moxie Swaggerman | General Warren R. Monger | Gorgonites (Ocula, Punch-It & Scratch-It, Insaniac, Slamfist & Troglokhan) | Krel Tarron | (“Law have mercy,” one says, when asked to cooperate with the book project. Eva | Stoick | Sinbad | Aja Tarron | Chief Tannabok | Contradictions abound, indeed. Eret | Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Altivo | Stella | Mr. Ping | Angie | But when Constantine seems to have disappeared out of her life one day, Miss Skeeter can’t help but wonder why. Mermista | She belongs to the Junior League and is in tight with other high-society ladies. Mr. Peabody | Kowalski | Or so it goes in this ultimately soft-pedaled version of Southern women’s lives, one in which real danger is usually at a distance. My skin is fair and while some call this creamy, it can look downright deathly when [she’s] serious, which is all the time. Kanjigar the Courageous | " I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant, or were you just born stupid? Valka | Tzipporah | Book groups armed with hankies will talk and talk about their quiet bravery and the outrageous insults dished out by their vain, racist employers. Crane | Pig | Miss Hilly is enough of a witch for readers to wait eagerly for a house to fall on her. Miss Skeeter, actually named Eugenia Phelan, is young woman and main character in the novel. Princess Bala | I did and I am more than satisfied. Mort | Shrek | Misha Belenkoff | Wallace | Arthur Pendragon | But [her] eyes are cornflower blue…” (Stockett 66). Frosta | Paulie | Perfuma | Toothiana | Skeeter's Awakening. Tulio | Classified | Po | In the final, Skeeter's own friends shun her, the black community embraces her, though not openly (because it's too dangerous). Animated Features Castaspella | “There is a skirmish in Vietnam,” Skeeter notices. Archer | Lady Tottington | If a New Yorker told her that Jackson must be beautiful, she would say it was fraught with crime. Miss Hilly and Miss Leefolt are almost farcically hypocritical in warning Skeeter against the “real racists” out there—probably the white men who lynch black people in the streets. Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi. Barf and Belch | Jack Frost | Oh | Tim Templeton | The Boov (Officer Kyle) | Vitaly | Spirit Jr. | Monkey | Sally | Rico | So much so that Skeeter compares herself to outcast Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, which she's been reading (even though it's a banned book in Mississippi). Hammy | Peng | Mantis | Sykes | “I reckon I’m on do it.”) It’s a story that purports to value the maids’ lives while subordinating them to Skeeter and her writing ambitions. But if a New Yorker spoke contemptuously about Jackson, Ms. Stockett would rise to its defense. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, Shorts, Television and Video Games Zuba | Mr. Toilette Ree | Toby Domzalski | But as the story progresses, Skeeter becomes more and more distanced from this safe social status and goes, as they say, rogue. Skidmark | Strong-willed and individualistic, Skeeter is frustrated by the sexist expectations society has of her. “This one, this is for the white lady,” the Reverend of that church says. And the white women of “The Help” don’t do those demeaning jobs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III | And the white women of “The Help” don’t do those demeaning jobs. Chel | Claire Nuñez | Revvit | Metro Man | Colonel Cutter | Private | This comment has been removed by the author. Merlin | Snow White | Skya | Polishing silver for an all-important meeting of the local bridge club? She labors long into the night. Tuffnut Thorston | Hookfang | Ton-Ton | Shifu | No way. Swift Wind | Burnish, Live-Action Movies Cinderella | Princess Poppy | Doris the Ugly Stepsister | Ginger | Queen Lillian | S et in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett shows the peak of racial segregation. Lucy Tucci | Viper | She is also extremely tall for a woman at that time. Sea Hawk | Snotlout Jorgenson | Donkey | Wrong Hordak | Yocheved | Corporal | Glimmer | Marty | Lars Smuntz | Having endured the pain of raising white child after white child only to see them grow up and away from her, Aibileen is still ready to embrace another one. She lives at home on her family's cotton plantation, Longleaf. Dozer | Shrek Heroes. Verne | Branch | They don’t do much of anything else either. A brief word now about Ms. Stockett: When she moved to New York City from Jackson, she came to understand how deeply ambivalent she felt about her roots. Marina | Lou | Nick and Fetcher | Her eyes are stinging, her fingers bloody and sore. Sleeping Beauty | Everest | Short Fuse | After finishing college, she comes back to live with her mother and father on their cotton plantation. She’s interested in the affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal household connections. Heather | Skeeter’s going to call the place “Niceville,” but she won’t make it sound nice. Catra | Bullwinkle J. Moose | And she devotes herself, at considerable risk, to a book featuring the real stories of the black women who work for the white families in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Peng | Whiplash | | God | i dont know what u are talking about it is the best because it has some history in it about african american. Chet | She-Ra | This article is so bright and colorful!!! King Gristle Jr. | Barry B. Benson | The two principal maid characters, the lovingly maternal Aibileen and the angry, scrappy Minny, leap off the page in all their warm, three-dimensional glory. Lenny | Gromit | Also, there’s a slight bump of cartilage along the top of [her] nose. Gloria | Megamind | A few days later, Skeeter meets with Aibileen again to ask her more questions for the Miss Myrna cleaning column. Miss Skeeter, actually named Eugenia Phelan, is young woman and main character in the novel. Miriam | Aibileen is this book’s loveliest character, especially in scenes that have her raising Mae Mobley, the toddler now in her charge. Aaron | White Shadow | Voltron | She is portrayed by Emma Stone in the 2011 movie adaptation who also portrayed Olive Penderghast in the 2010 movie Easy A beforehands and Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man film series afterwards. Sanderson Mansnoozie | Roddy St. James | Rocket J. Squirrel | King Harold | Mae Mobley’s little games include pretending to stage a sit-in at a Woolworth’s counter and pretending to ride the bus with Rosa Parks. Roxanne Ritchi | How to Train Your Dragon Heroes | Stormfly | She loved Demetrie dearly without ever giving much thought to what Demetrie’s life was like, and she says that “The Help” was written to fill in that gap. Instead of getting married like her friends, she decides to finish her studies at Ole Miss and obtains her degree. Little Creek | Entrapta | The worst of these bosses, a woman known as Miss Hilly, treats Minny like a thief. Jim Lake Jr. | Erica Wang | Hutch | She is Miss Skeeter Phelan, a white woman. | Ulaz | King Micah | Miguel | Kitty Softpaws | Here is a debut novel by a Southern-born white author who renders black maids’ voices in thick, dated dialect. News of the real world seeps into the book only occasionally, with a brief televised glimpse of James Meredith integrating Ole Miss or other muffled rendered news. Ty Rux | Hunter | Penny | Yi | Rocky Rhodes | She is Miss Skeeter Phelan, a white woman. And she campaigns to have Jackson households install extra toilets so that colored help will not have to use white families’ restricted bathrooms. The trouble on the pages of Skeeter’s book is nothing compared with the trouble Ms. Stockett’s real book risks getting into. B.O.B. Z 4195 | She breaks all the rules and crosses dangerous lines – and we love her for it. Weaver | Coran | She is portrayed by Emma Stone in the 2011 movie adaptation who also portrayed Olive Penderghast in the 2010 movie Easy A beforehands and Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man film series afterwards. Jin | John H. Miller | She makes herself the nemesis of each of the book’s black characters and many of its white ones. Hilly doesn't take this calmly, though, and turns Skeeter into a social pariah. Team Voltron (Shiro, Keith, Lance, Pidge, Allura & Hunk) | Eugenia Phelan, most known as her nickname Skeeter is the main protagonist of the Kathryn Stockett's best-seller novel, The Help. Vanessa Bloome | Princess Fiona | “You tell her we love her, like she’s our own family.”. Thace | Maurice | Bucky, Spike and Quillo | Dronkeys | And it celebrates noblesse oblige so readily that Skeeter’s act of daring earns her a gift from a local black church congregation. Sierra | Bridget | On the evidence of Ms. Stockett’s autobiographical afterword, this is the part of the story she knows best; she herself had an absentee white mother and was raised by a black woman named Demetrie. The Society of Robes | See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. She's best friends with Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt since grade school. Tip Tucci | Dragon | Gia | Douxie Casperan | Skipper | Instead of getting married like her friends, she decides to finish her studies at Ole Miss and obtains her degree. Insectosaurus | Captain Underpants | Baby Tooth | Proteus | Skeeter also offers Aibileen five dollars for every article she has helped with, but Aibileen refuses the money, explaining that Miss Leefolt would not like it and that Aibileen will not help Skeeter with her book. Cash Networth | Harold Hutchins | Spinnerella | Shen's Parents | Smoove Move | Her mother Charlotte often pressures her to be more ladylike and to find a man to marry. Have u ever tried external professional essay writing services like DigitalEssay.net ? Bow | Oscar | RJ | Puss in Boots | Turbo | What cinches her new position of social outcast is the prank she plays on Hilly, who is trying to get a bill passed requiring Mississippi families to build outdoor bathrooms for their black employees. With Elizabeth's reluctant permission, Skeeter starts meeting with Aibileen to get answers to the questions readers send in. Kung Fu Panda Heroes | Draal the Deadly | Night Light Hatchlings | Tigress | She is a beautiful woman with kinky and strawberry blond hair, more public than cranial who's breaking off easily. https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Eugenia_%22Skeeter%22_Phelan?oldid=1854976, Both Emma Stone & Bryce Dallas Howard (Miss Hilly) have played the character of. Boss Baby | The Cat in the Hat (Live Action) | Florrie | Fowler | Scorpia | In “The Help,” Kathryn Stockett’s button-pushing, soon to be wildly popular novel about black domestic servants working in white Southern households in the early 1960s, one woman works especially tirelessly. Ginormica | With the kind of lead-footed linkage that runs throughout this novel even though it may accurately reflect what Ms. Stockett witnessed in her Southern girlhood Miss Hilly’s Junior League does its fund-raising for the sake of “the Poor Starving Children of Africa” while treating the poor African-Americans of Jackson as if they were subhuman. 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