Reading: The Help

I finally finished the book! This is the first book I have finished in one sitting in a very long time.  In the story, the editor decides to publish the book but only runs a small amount of copies.  The sales were up in the districts where a lot of the actual maids lived in Jackson but not many in the white suburbs had bought copies yet.  That was until a talk show host did a review on it and made a lot of the white women in the town believe it was about Jackson.  All of the women went out and bought copies to figure out if it was in fact about Jackson.  Hilly started to piece together and come up with maids that she thought helped with the book.  Hilly then told all of women who were those maids' employers and they fired their help.  Hilly was especially outraged that the story about the chocolate pie was in the book.  Instead of going to Celia, Hilly went to Minny's husband's employer and made him be fired.  Minny's husband was abusive so Minny and her children decided to run.  Skeeter was offered a job at a magazine in New York, and after Aibileen's encouragement, Skeeter took the job.  Skeeter was also rocking the long hair and hippie look that had become popular.  The other main reason Skeeter decided to take the job was that her mom's cancer was in remission.  Then, Hilly went to Elizabeth who was Aibileen's employer.  Hilly tried to frame Aibileen for stealing and forced Elizabeth to fire her.  Aibileen made sure the children remembered all of her lessons before she left.  On the bright side, Aibileen was offered the Miss Myrna column that Skeeter previously did and was paid the same amount Skeeter was.  This story was very powerful and inspirational.