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  2. Book Summary. The Help, Kathryn Stockett's debut novel, tells the story of black maids working in white Southern homes in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and of Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a 22-year-old graduate from Ole Miss, who returns to her family's cotton plantation, Longleaf, to find that her beloved maid and nanny ...

  3. The Help Summary. The Help focuses on three women in 1960s Jackson Mississippi: Aibileen, who works as a nanny and housekeeper for the Leefolt family; Minny, an outspoken maid; and Skeeter, a recent college graduate. Skeeter longs to pursue a career in writing that will take her beyond the stifling confines of her refined white southern society.

  4. The Help is a 2009 novel by American novelist Kathryn Stockett. Set during the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, it focuses on the lives of Black maids working in white households during the civil rights movement.

  5. Overview. The Help, Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 debut novel, explores the 1960s Jim Crow South—not from a legal or political perspective, but from what occurs in the home between Black maids and the white women they work for.

  6. The Help Summary. Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the novel begins in August 1962 with Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged black domestic worker, taking care of Elizabeth Leefolt’s only child, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt, a white housewife, neglects her daughter, but Aibileen showers Mae Mobley with affection.

  7. In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of The Help. Visual theme-tracking, too.

  8. The Help is a novel by Kathryn Stockett about Black maids in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. The maids work with Skeeter Phelan, a young white woman, to create a book depicting their lives. The...

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