Download this LitChart! Teachers and parents! Struggling with distance learning? Our Teacher Edition on The Help can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Though dying of cancer, Charlotte is a fighter and is still alive at the end of the novel.
Charlotte also harbors racist beliefs that she never renounces. Even though Constantine had been like a mother to Skeeter, she fires her just because her daughter Lulabelle pretended to be white and mingled with her white friends.
For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Also, even though the bond is strong between maid and child, the parents can sever the bond without explanation.
It is an impossible relationship, yet the love between maid and child is a constant theme in Southern culture. The civil rights movement is also introduced in these chapters when Skeeter's mother discovers Skeeter watching the national news with Pascagoula looking on. Marches and protests are being organized across the country which will eventually impact Jackson, too. Skeeter's mother chastises her daughter for "encouraging" the help, but it is clear that the world is changing and the way race relations have been in the South will not be tolerated in the future.
Previous Chapters Next Chapter 7. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. She tries to control every aspect of Skeeter's appearance and her life but her efforts backfire.
Charlotte is married to her husband, Robert Phelan. Constantine Bates is Charlotte's beloved year-old African American maid who had raised Skeeter ever since she was a young girl. Charlotte does not want to show that she loves Rachel Bates and tells her to go.
She closes the screen door on a stunned Rachel. Rachel opens the door and walks into the dining room while the other women are shocked. As Rachel welcomes her mother, Grace stands up, completely stunned, and forces Charlotte to make an unpleasant call. According to Skeeter, she doesn't see how she could have possibly done things differently.
She could not let Lulabelle walk among the DAR ladies pretending to be a white woman. But Charlotte does mourn the loss of Constantine and appears to be opening up more to the fact that things aren't right in her community. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide.
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