What are the main events in the help?

Answer 1

In order:

Aibleen starts working for Mrs Leefolt.

Mrs Leefolt and Miss Hilly discuss plans to make an outdoor bathroom for the help to stop diseases.

Minnie gets fired by Miss Hilly (In the film: for going to the toilet in the house) or (in the book: for apparently stealing one of her items)

Mrs leefolt installs outdoor bathroom and forces Aibleen to go to the toilet outside from now on.

Mrs Skeeter gets a job at the local newspaper writing a cleaning column.

Mrs Skeeter asks Mrs leefolt if Aibleen can help her with the column.

Mrs Skeeter and Aibleen start writing the cleaning column

Mrs Skeeter looks into where her old help is now and why she left her family.

Mrs Leefolt and her husband have a fight over the helps outdoor bathroom.

Mrs Skeeter is told not to talk to Aibleen anymore.

Minnie takes a poo and mixes it into Miss Hilly's pie and makes her eat it, unaware of whats inside it.

Minnie can't get a job anywhere.

Mrs Skeeter is offered a published book contract on 'the help' if she can write it within a time limit.

Aibleen agrees to help write the book.

Minnie gets a job as help.

Minnie agrees to help write book.

Answer 2

"The Help" follows the story of Skeeter, a young writer, who decides to write a book from the perspective of black maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi. The main events include Skeeter's interviews with the maids, their struggles and mistreatment in the households they work, and the eventual publication of the book which exposes the injustices and racism faced by the maids.