5 Reasons Why Ms. Skeeter Wrote Help

Ms.Skeeter writes a book called Help with the help of 2 other maids who are called the help. Writing this book was a big risk for everyone involved in it. So some people may ask why would you even bother writing the book?

1. Ms. Skeeter was always curious about the help and what their feelings were. 
Throughout the book Ms. Skeeter was always thinking about the help. She saw them cleaning and cooking and she wondered what they thought about everything. She never really understood their perspective, until she started writing the book. Ms. Skeeter was obvious to everything that was going on with race before she started writing Help. For example when Ms. Skeeter first asked Aibileen to help her write the book. She had no idea how dangerous it was because she never had to think about it before.

2. Ms. Skeeter saw how Hilly treated the help.
Hilly was Ms. Skeeter's best friend. However she was also the worst to the help. She treated them with no respect. Hilly did awful things to the help. She treated them like they were filthy animals. The final line that Ms. Skeeter drew was Hilly building bathrooms outside for the help to use because they have "diseases" so it is not safe for them to use the same bathrooms as everyone else. Ms. Skeeter thought that it was not right the way that Hilly treated them. This is another thing that led her to the idea of the book Help.

3. Ms. Skeeter got to know Aibileen and later they became friends.
Ms. Skeeter and Aibileen started getting to know each other because Ms. Skeeter got a job for a newspaper. Women wrote to Ms. Skeeter asking her for cleaning tips. However Ms. Skeeter had no clue how to clean anything. So she turned to Aibileen. Aibileen was very shy around Ms. Skeeter but when they got closer she started to open up and Ms. Skeeter started seeing that the help were ordinary people too.

4. Ms. Skeeter had anger about what happened to Constantine.
Growing up Ms. Skeeter had a maid named Constantine. Constantine practically raised Ms. Skeeter. She was one person that really got Ms. Skeeter and that Ms. Skeeter could always count on. It was hard for Ms. Skeeter to leave to go to college and leave Constantine. However when Ms. Skeeter came home after college Constantine was gone. Her mother told her that she went up to Chicago to be with her family. Later in the book Ms. Skeeter found out that her mother had fired Constantine because her daughter who came out looking very pale talked back to Ms. Skeeter's mom. Constantine died later on. Ms. Skeeter had so much anger inside her that this also fueled her to write Help.

5. Ms. Skeeter always stood up for what was right.
Constantine always told Ms. Skeeter since she was young to do what is right and that is what Ms. Skeeter has done. When her mother was sick she stayed home and took care of her. She wrote Help because she thought it was the right thing to do. She felt that people needed to hear about what the help's life was like. She didn't care about the consequences. Ms. Skeeter even lost her fiancée( even though they were only engaged for about 2 minutes...) because he didn't understand that writing the book was the right thing to do.