Violence Quotes in The Help Page 3
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| Quote #7 "But what would they do? Hitch us to a pickup and drag us behind? Shoot me in my yard? Or just starve us to death?" (14.167) |
After civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated minutes from Minny's house, Minny's only worries more about what will happen if their storytelling project is discovered.
| Quote #8 "It makes me sick to hear about that kind of brutality." Daddy sets his fork down silently. […] "I'm ashamed sometimes, Senator, ashamed of what goes on in Mississippi." (20.79) |
Skeeter, apparently, has never heard her father voice his political opinions before, and is proud of what she hears.
| Quote #9 I wait for her to catch the irony of this, that she'll send money to colored people overseas, but not across town. (22.58) |
Hilly doesn't catch the irony. She collects money for The Poor Starving Children of Africa as proof she isn't a racist. In all, she seems to do more harm than good, even in her so-called charity work.
