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    other woman working there besides Mister Golden’s receptionist‚ Donna. She aspires to become a writer so she sets out on this journey to write a book about the typical life of a maid. Along the way she is told she won’t be able to do it because of her lack of experience. She works long‚ hard hours interviewing the maids about their jobs‚ risking being caught and arrested‚ but finally finishes and publishes the book shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Miss Skeeter never

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    Her husband did not pay attention to her wish and she went to rescue the cat in the rain alone. Raising Action On the first floor of hotel the American wife met a hotel-keeper‚ who paid attention to her that is why she liked him. He sent the maid with umbrella to her. She thought that he cared for her. When she went to the table to take a cat‚ she found that the cat was gone. She was very upset. It was the raising action of story. Climax Climax happened when she disappointed about

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    book. Lily Owens has a young girl was blamed for killing her mother by her father‚ T-Ray. She grew up very curious and inspired. Within this journal I will be predicting what happened to Lily and her father T-Ray‚ evaluate where Lily and the family maid Rosaleen will go in the future and lastly I will be questioning the relationship between T-Ray and Lily. Within the first couple chapters Lily Owens narrates the complex relationship between her and her dad. When she was very young she accidently

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    promote equality in "the land of the free‚" was useless towards the idea of racial harmony and African Americans were treated bitterly and relentlessly during this time. The author Kathryn Stockett wrote a novel in the perspective of mistreated black maids and one helping white woman during the time of the civil rights movement. Through the historical events‚ characters‚ and setting compiled into Kathryn Stockett’s novel‚ The Help‚ the theme of injustice and racial inferiority is portrayed. During the

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    symbolic‚ and his symbols defy easy explanation. The story opens with a kindly physician standing outside his home in "great perplexity"; his horse has died‚ and he has been summoned to see a critically-ill patient some ten miles away. The doctor’s maid has gone to try to borrow a horse‚ but he is sure she will be unsuccessful. The story is introduced in a series of tight‚ clipped sentence fragments‚ as if related in a state of great anxiety‚ but so far the events themselves make perfect sense. Suddenly

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    to fire their help after she gathered which ones had contributed stories to help publish “The Help”. Aibileen Clark‚ another main character who was exposed for having great influence on the book‚ was framed for stealing and after forty years as a maid felt that‚ due to Miss Hilly’s actions‚ “in thirty minutes‚ [her] whole life’s…done”(522). By allowing the two main characters to personally be victimized by Hilly Holbrook‚ Stockett provokes a hate in each reader for the villain that is Miss Hilly

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    stanza‚ about the girl making a wish‚ may be symbolic of the girl regretting getting pregnant‚ because if the link between the word‚ ’maid’‚ and the apron quotation from earlier which was suggesting pregnancy. "I wish‚ I wish - but it’s in vain I wish I wish I was a maid again"‚ this quotation suggests that she regrets becoming pregnant as she want to be maid again‚ ‘maid’ suggesting‚ not pregnant. This creates a sense of regret when the girl thought it was a good idea to fall in love with the shepherd

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    her show’s platform to validate women. Growing up during the Civil Rights era‚ Winfrey’s grandmother aspired for young Oprah to be employed as a maid to a nice‚ white family and probably would not have believed that she would become one of the most influential woman to

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    W. & FLEMING‚ S. 1975. All work and no pay: women‚ housework‚ and the wages due‚ Power of Women Collective. EHRENREICH‚ B. 2003. Maid to Order. In: BARBARA EHRENREICH‚ A. H. (ed.) Global Woman: Nanies‚ Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. London: Granta Publications. EHRENREICH‚ B. & HOCHSCHILD‚ A. R. 2003. Introduction. Global Woman: Nannies‚ Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Granta Books. HATT‚ S. 1997. Housework‚ Childcare and Employment. In: CAMPLING‚ J. (ed.) Gender‚ Work

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    Ernest Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain is a story of an American married couple staying in a French hotel. The main character in this story is the unnamed female who is one of the two Americans in this story. Hemingway uses many methods to revel this character to the reader. Three of the main methods he uses are‚ through the woman’s dialogue‚ by the use of the minor characters‚ and through symbolism. The main method used to develop the women to the reader is through the minor characters. The first

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