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The novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett tells a story of the struggles that African American women experienced in the early 1960’s through the eyes of some southern African American maids and recorded by a well to do plantation owner’s daughter named Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. Skeeter is one of the main characters in the novel. Skeeter is an intelligent young woman who has always done what her family expects of her. When Skeeter returns home from college she discovers that her childhood nanny Constantine is no longer there. She becomes consumed with the desire to find out what has happened to her. In the beginning of the story it is discovered that Skeeter wants to be a writer. She has always felt “the norm” that she has always been taught was wrong, but she fails to speak up and voice her opinion, because this is all she has known and been taught.
After returning home from college, the only job that Skeeter is able to obtain is as a domestic maintenance advice columnist for an advice column called “Ms. Myrna.” As Skeeter knows nothing about housekeeping she seeks that advice of Aibileen an African American maid who works for one of her friends named Elizabeth. During their interactions about the column Skeeter seeks answers from Aibileen about Constantine. These conversations lead Skeeter to write a story from the maids’ point of view in a plight to discover what happened to her own maid and nanny Constantine. As Skeeter and Aibileen start their interactions, Aibileen’s best friend and fellow maid Minny shares her stories as well. Eventually this would prompt other maids to come forward. This paper will show how Skeeter transforms and learns through her conversations with the African American maids as her book unravel...

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...ea and become something else. Her experiences in college and after returning home have assisted in developing her transition from a child of Jackson, Mississippi to an adult of the world.

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Knowles, M. S. (1984). The adult learner: A neglected species (3rd ed.). Houston: Gulf.
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Merzirow, J. (2000). Learning to think like an adult: Core concepts of transformation theory. In J. Mezirow & Associates, Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in progress. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Stockett, K. (2009). The Help. New York, NY: The Penguin Group

In this essay, the author

  • Explains kasworm, rose, a. d., and ross-gordon, j. m. handbook of adult and continuing education.
  • Analyzes how kathryn stockett's the help tells a story of the struggles that african american women experienced in the early 1960s through the eyes of some southern african-american maids.
  • Analyzes how skeeter's learning process can be analyzed through the study of malcolm knowles' andragogy.
  • Analyzes how skeeter's internal desire to discover what happened to her nanny constantine helps with self-reflection and growth.
  • Cites merriam, caffarella, & baumgartner, in learning in adulthood: a comprehensive guide (3rd ed.).
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      • Analyzes how aibileen is the first maid to agree to recount her years of racial mistreatment by privileged white women. she works for elizabeth, an affluent white woman who is pregnant with her second child.
      • Narrates how skeeter, a recent college graduate, confronts the unjust treatment of black women by white socialites in the junior women's league. she disagrees with the myth that her friends hate black people.
      • Narrates how minny is a close friend of aibileen's, and is the second maid to consent to telling her story for skeeter’s book.
      • Analyzes how hilly is a pillar of her community and president of the junior league of women society. her beliefs about blacks are troubling throughout the movie.
      • Analyzes how celia, a white girl from the wrong side of the tracks, marries one of jackson's most eligible bachelors and hilly’s ex-boyfriend.
      • Analyzes how the movie is entertaining and brings about thought-provoking conversations about racial and social injustice in the 1960s. the content depicts the historical treatment of black maids during the time of jim crow laws.
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