Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Reading: The Help

Let me start out this blog post by saying how much i love this book!  Everyone else who has read it will most likely agree that if you are interested you should definitely read it!  The benefit that the Jackson League puts on happens at the beginning of what I am reading for the week.  It is one of the biggest social events of the year in Jackson.  Celia goes to the benefit and wears a dress that she believes is cute but is not very modest.  The moment Celia walks in the room people are staring at how provocative she looks.  Celia gets very drunk and throws up and Miss Hilly, the woman in charge of the benefit, kicked Celia out of all Jackson League events forever.  Just before that, the winners of the silent auction items are announced.  Someone signed Miss Hilly up for a chocolate pie that Minny made.  On stage Hilly looked happy but when she got off stage she was disgusted.  What people do not know is how Minny made a chocolate pie for Hilly once right before she was fired.  After Hilly had already eaten two pieces Minny told Hilly how she put poop in the pie.

Skeeter rushed to get the manuscript together in time for the editor to read it before the holidays but Skeeter will not know what the editor thought until after the holidays.  Skeeter also just found out how her mother had cancer in the lining of her stomach.  Her mother only gets up to go to the bathroom and throws up at least twice a day.  Skeeter is worried but she has started to go on dates with Stuart again.  Stuart left for a few months and did not contact Skeeter at all.  Before the benefit, Skeeter pulled a prank on Hilly showing her protest for Hilly's separate bathroom initiative for the help.  Skeeter put almost thirty toilets on Hilly's front lawn.  Because of this action, Skeeter lost her position as the editor of the League's newsletter.

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