Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Benefit

I can't stop reading this book. I only started reading it 3 weeks ago and now I only have 30 pages until i'm done! I must say, i've done alot more reading than I have done blogging so this blog is going to be over about 5 chapters. Instead of doing a synopsis on every chapter, i'll just cover the most important things that have happend.

The biggest thing that's happend recently is the benefit. This was the one chapter where every single character was together in one place. Minny was scared to see Hilly, while Miss Celia was too busy trying to be Hilly's best friend. Miss Skeeter had recently been casted out of the Ladies Society because of a tiff with Hilly, so she just sat in the corner. After agreeing to post Hilly's intiative in the newspaper, she purposely said to have people drop off their toilets in Hilly's yard. The next morning, Hilly was greatly embarrassed, and with all the toilets in her yard, she became the laughing stock of mississippi. Along with her Hilly troubles, her boyfriend broke up with her. Minny and Aibileen served at the benefit as help. When the time for the auction came, Hilly won a chocolate pie made by MInny. Thinking it was a prank by Miss Celia, she embarrased Miss Celia infront of everyone making her and Mister Johnny go home. Later she found out it was her own mother that signed Hilly up to win the chocolate pie.

In Minny's own chapter, she explained to Miss Celia why Hilly had gone off on her, and told her of the "terrible awful" thing she had done to Miss Hilly. When Miss Hilly sent Miss Walters to the retirement home, she offered to give Minny a job, and then went around telling everyone Minny was a theft so she'd have to accept the job. Minny then told her to eat her poop. A few days later, when Miss Walters was being taken to the nursing home, Minny came by with a chocolate pie just for hilly. Miss Hilly liked it so much that she ate two slices, when Miss Walters asked for a slice Minny told her no, that it was a special pie and only for Hilly and told her that the pie had Minny's poop in it. Minny then left and Miss Walters thought it was the funniest thing in the world, and to get back at Hilly for sending her to the retirement home told her what was in the pie. Miss Hilly knew she couldn't do anything about it because her repuation would be ruined. A few days, Miss Hilly sent Mis Celia a note asking for 200 dollars for damages she had caused to Miss Hilly's dress (she ripped it on accident when she tripped). Miss Celia sent her the note but not before throwing in her own jab. The note section of the check, read for two-slice Hilly. 


The past few chapters have been some of the funniest one's there have been. Lots of drama and laughs. I'm starting to think that Maybe this is a true story. The book chronicles the life of maids, just as the book in the story does. Maybe i'll find out soon. That'll be really cool if it did. I just found out they're making a movie of it. I can't wait to go see it. The actors and actresses that they've picked for it are perfect! I went through the list of actors and matched them to what characters i'd thought they'd be and I was right, they picked the perfect cast! Hopefully the movie lives up to the book!

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