The Help Bathroom

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The help bathroom. Skeeter arrives at aibileen s house to ask for her help with the book and parks her cadillac in front which draws the attention of the neighborhood and could endanger aibileen. This begins with hilly s home help sanitation initiative which requires all white families to have a second bathroom for the use of their black maids. Mae mobley is too young to understand the segregation and why her request to use aibileen s bathroom elicits a spanking from her mother.

For each quote you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon like this one. This policy creates a number of difficulties for aibileen and other maids and prompts skeeter to start her work on the book about black maids. In jackson a separate bathroom for the help is a status symbol meant to increase one s class status.

Miss leefolt who does not necessarily believe that black people carry racially specific diseases still perpetuates that racist belief by building another bathroom in order to seem wealthier. Aibileen says this to miss leefolt after she installs a second bathroom for the colored help as hilly had suggested. And then i go on and clorox the white bathroom again real good pg.

It s been endorsed by the white citizen s council. The help is a 2011 period drama film written and directed by tate taylor and based on kathryn stockett s 2009 novel of the same name the film features an ensemble cast including jessica chastain viola davis bryce dallas howard allison janney octavia spencer and emma stone the film and novel recount the story of a young white woman and aspiring journalist eugenia skeeter phelan. I use my colored bathroom from now on.

The the help quotes below all refer to the symbol of bathrooms.