PRABE Week 3

     This week in The Help, a lot has been going on with the ladies. Skeeter has begun to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer. Though writing as Miss Myrna through weekly cleaning advice column is not her ideal writing job, it’s a start.  She is still searching for answers to what happened to Constantine, her childhood maid and the woman that raised her. Sparked by the challenge of a female New York editor, Skeeter has begun to consider different topics to write about. She decides she wants to tell the story of colored maids in the South.
     Aibileen is both nervous and scared to share her stories with Skeeter. It’s improper and dangerous to share such truth and perspective with a white woman but she feels the need to let the stories out. After a lot of pursuing and persuading, Skeeter has Aibileen on board to share her stories. She sees Mae Mobley, her current white baby, and dislikes the woman she will most likely become, she thinks about the death of her son and the emptiness left behind and she thinks of Robert, the colored boy that was beaten blind for using the wrong toilet as she tells her stories. She is worried what would happen if they were caught but she prays that some good comes of it. 
     Minny finds a job with Celia Foote, who for some reason wants, to hide the fact that she hired a maid from her husband.  Minny also begins to tell her stories to Skeeter but she is more harsh and unforgiving than Aibileen. There is a lot of racial tension In Jackson, Mississippi and each time the women meet to share stories, they are risking imprisonment, injury or death. The women are so devoted to having the truth heard and praying that it makes a difference that they continue to meet even after the murder of an NAACP member on his front lawn.