correction & the help discussion

well i lied... the blush & beautiful book club is not reading i do, now what. we are reading a book that is soooo much better. we are reading the help by kathryn stockett  and i haven't been into a book this much since i read the twilight series in so long. part of the process in the book club is to include the q & a on our own blogs.  if you have not read this book, i already highly recommend it...

discussion...

1. Right off the bat, who are your favorite characters? Why? What do you like about them?  hands down, my favorite character is minny. i love her attitude and her willingness to act/do/say whatever she wants! i think that chapter three has been the most entertaining so far.
2. Who are your least favorite characters? Why? What is it that you dislike? this is a toss up between hilly and elizabeth. they both seem so tart and superficial. it is so hurtful to read the interaction between elizabeth and mae mobely. i'm also saddened that hilly is so disrespectful to her mother!
3. Who are you most interested to learn more about?  i feel like this is a given - johnny & celia foote! there is such a secret looming over them. i can't wait to find out what it is!
4. What do you think the Terrible Awful Thing is that Minny did to Miss Hilly? ugh i'm almost afraid to even know! i think she may  have put something dead in the pie...
5. Why is Celia Foote hiding Minny from Mister Johnny? What is she afraid of? i think that celia is hiding minny because she isn't doing the housework & cooking like johnny expects. i feel like she's afraid because johnny could be very angry. from minny's prior experience with johnny (when he dated hilly), it's obvious that minny is scared of him as well.   
6. What kind of man do you perceive Mister Johnny to be? cold, proud, possibly embarrassed of celia's background.  
7. What do you think is to come from Miss Skeeter's question she asked Aibileen in the kitchen? do you ever wish you could... change things? such a loaded question. i would probably be offended if i were aibileen and some rich little white girl asked me that question. in all honesty, though, i think that skeeter wants to help change her community, and change the relationship between black and white people. she disagrees with the act that hilly wants to pass. i think her eyes are opening to the world around her and she knows it should be different.
8. What's your favorite line from Chapters 1-3? (mine is more like a paragraph!)

"... if I start praying for Miss Skeeter, I know that conversation gone continue the next time I see her. And the next and the next. Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going" (page 23).