The Help 2-10-12

I'm beginning to run out of posts for this book. And I can't really remember exactly how many pages ago all the events were, so hopefully these ones fit my 100 page timeframe. It's ironic that the white people don't want their maids in their bathrooms, or drinking and eating out of the same dishes as themselves, but the women give their Help their babies and children to raise. It's also wierd that the children who had close relationships with black people as children, and have first hand experience of their personalities and kindness, since they were basically their mothers, still grow up to continue the cycle of black and white inequality. Skeeter seems to be the only Help alumni that has learned from her childhood. Hopefully Mae Mobly turns out like Skeeter, judging people base on her own beliefs, not everyone else's. Abileen tells her a story to try to subltly teach her to love people like Skeeter does and better. Her "secret stories"  are little treasures to Mae Mobly. The first one is about loving the inside of people, no matter the color. She wraps candy in brown paper and white paper, and tells Mae Mobly that it doesn't matter what color the outside is, what is inside is equal. Then she tells her about Martin Luther King Jr., portraying him as a green alien, outcast because her was green.
      Maybe Mae Mobly has hope, since she is learning these leasons. Skeeter had them. She told us earlier in the book that she used to go home with Constantine some lucky Fridays. An it struck her that her mother told her to be nice to the little black girls when she is there. Ofcourse she wondered, "why wouldn't I." Children have no shame. Onse they grow up they learnabout themselves. Not particullarly about others, about themselves. They learn that they are flawed and they remember their mistakes. Then the white women, struggling for power and prestige, have to put down the black community, seperate themselves from it, to make themselves feel superior to someone. This book portrays the women and the issue and it seems like the suposedly subtle creatures of the day were running more than half of the black oposition. I think one reason Skeeter turned out like she did was because she had her dad as an example, who didn't really like segregation and unequal rights for blacks, but Skeeter had the strength to openly act on her beliefs.