It has been so long (just kidding like 4 days) since I have posted but I will tell you I have been very busy doing very important things. On to Chapter 6...
Again this chapter is in Skeeters P.O.V (woo, she is my favorite). This chapter takes place in September 1962 and Skeeter gets a letter from Elaine Stein who works at a publishing company in New York called Harper and Row Publishers. She says Skeeter does not have enough experience for this job she applied for just before she left Ole Miss but she likes her ambition and suggests she get a job at her local newspaper and if she ever has any ideas for a book to send her a letter about some ideas and she would help her out with writing the novel. Skeeter has a double major in Journalism and English, got the job at the newspaper and asks for Aibileens help with the column due to the fact it has to do with housekeeping something Skeeter knows nothing about. We learn also that Aibileens late son Treelore was writing a book about what it is like to be black in Mississippi. Also we learn that Constantine had a daughter with pale skin since Constantine father was of pale skin and the father of the child was black. It was not right in Mississippi that two blacks have a white child so they sent their daughter away and Constantine always wanted to have her back but those are all the details we get.
This book is so discriminatory even thought this is only the first few chapters like the white women know nothing about housecleaning because they have a black housekeeper to do it for them. Skeeter takes a house keeping column yet she knows nothing about keeping a house clean. Also she has to ask Elizabeths permission to talk to Aibileen about housekeeping and getting her help with the column since maids are like white women's property they are like objects that they use for their own needs. I love Skeeter honestly but in this chapter I feel she should have tried a different route instead of using a black housekeeper to do her job at the newspaper for her.
My song of the chapter is Count On Me by Bruno Mars because I feel from here they are going to learn to trust each other if they are going to work with each other and count on each other.
Picture Below is Elaine Stein.....
Toodles,
Caley
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