Home Health Sanitation Initiative
Hilly Holbrook: They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted the Home HealtSanitation Initiative.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The what?
Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
Reflection:
The storyline behind The Help by Kathryn Stockett is the introduction of the Home Help Sanitation Initiative. Hilly Holbrook introduces the initiative to her bridge club friends when she randomly changes the topic to “I’ve designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative as a disease-preventative measure. A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help” (10). By introducing this new law, Hilly is giving new guidelines to how Americans are supposed to live and what they are supposed to do, if they’re living in the south especially. I believe that everyone has good inside of them and a positive conscious that tells them what is wrong and what is right and that is why Skeeter was more open to the idea of integration than her social group of friends. But those other women grew up being told how to think and how to behave and what their actions are supposed to say and do say about the kind of person that they are.
Hilly Holbrook: They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted the Home HealtSanitation Initiative.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The what?
Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
Reflection:
The storyline behind The Help by Kathryn Stockett is the introduction of the Home Help Sanitation Initiative. Hilly Holbrook introduces the initiative to her bridge club friends when she randomly changes the topic to “I’ve designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative as a disease-preventative measure. A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help” (10). By introducing this new law, Hilly is giving new guidelines to how Americans are supposed to live and what they are supposed to do, if they’re living in the south especially. I believe that everyone has good inside of them and a positive conscious that tells them what is wrong and what is right and that is why Skeeter was more open to the idea of integration than her social group of friends. But those other women grew up being told how to think and how to behave and what their actions are supposed to say and do say about the kind of person that they are.