Reading: The Help

The main things that happened in this section involved Skeeter.  Skeeter's mom fired her old maid Constantine. Skeeter has been asking all over town but no one knows where Constantine went or how to get a hold of her.  Skeeter also applied for a job at a successful publishing company and received a personal letter from the senior editor who was surprisingly a woman.  The editor was named Elaine Stein.  Stein agreed to look over Skeeter's ideas and give her opinion but that Skeeter should first get a job at the local paper.  Since Skeeter was a woman, she was given the Miss Myrna column.  Women write in to Miss Myrna and ask for advice on cleaning and relationships.  Skeeter does not know much about either of those topics so she goes to see Aibleen who agrees to help with the answers.  After a few days, Skeeter gets a revolutionary idea.  Skeeter decides she wants to write a book from the perspective of the help.  No one has written anything like it before.  The only problem will be finding people who will be willing to talk about their employers and their lives.  It will be even harder because a local black man was beat for going into the white bathroom.  He only went in there because there was not a sign that said he could not.  Aibleen does not even want to be a part of this book.  I am excited to see how Skeeter convinces people to be a part of the book.