What is the famous line from the help?
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What is the famous line from the help?
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
What did aibileen say to hilly at the end?
Aibileen tells Hilly that if she goes to jail, she’ll spend all her time writing letters to the people of Jackson telling everybody that Hilly is the woman in the last chapter of Help.
Why did hilly fire Minny in The Help?
Hilly decides to take her revenge on Minny and Abilene. She instructs her husband to get Minny’s abusive husband fired. When the husband tries to beat Minny up for this, Minny takes her children and leaves him to work full time for Celia.
What does Minny say is the most important invention when it comes to cooking?
– Well, I reckon if there’s anything you ought to know `bout cooking… Minny holds up a can of Crisco. – It’s this. The most important invention since they put mayonnaise in a jar.
What is wrong with Miss Celia in The Help?
Celia’s biggest problem is that she believes she’s only worthy of Johnny’s love if she can give birth to children, but she’s plagued by miscarriages. She comes to learn that her husband loves her for who she is, and that she can live a happy life even though people like Hilly and Elizabeth don’t like her.
What was on Hilly’s lip?
Hilly, who’s gained weight and developed a cold sore on her lip, marches up to the porch with a letter accusing Skeeter of writing the book. She plans to give the letter to Charlotte, which worries Skeeter because this info will be a shock to her ailing mother.
Is Mae Mobley a real name?
Mae Mobley was born, fictionally speaking, in August, 1960, in Jackson, Mississippi. I was born in July, 1960, in Atlanta. Mae Mobley had Aibileen. I had Mary Darian, the young woman who worked at our house not every day but often enough I thought of her as family.
What name has Minny chosen as her secret identity in Skeeter’s book?
She uses one. What name has Minny chosen as her secret identity in Skeeter’s book? Gertrude Black.
How old is Mae Mobley now?
Mae Mobley is two years old when The Help opens. She’s the daughter of Elizabeth and Raleigh Leefolt. Before the novel ends, she gets a younger brother, also named Raleigh. Like Skeeter, Mae Mobley doesn’t fit her society’s notions of what a little girl should look like.
What does Celia call Minny at the end of chapter 17 that makes Minny annoyed with Celia?
friend
Miss Celia joins her for lunch every day at the same table and it unnerves Minny. When Miss Celia calls Minny her “friend,” Minny becomes furious and accuses her of being a drunk.
Does Cilla end up with Johnny?
Johnny Foote is a wealthy and successful 26-year-old businessman and a Jackson native. He is Hilly Holbrook’s ex-boyfriend. He married Celia Foote because she was pregnant, but he is now an attentive and loving husband.