The Help The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a novel about coloured women working for white families in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960s It follows the lives of Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson who are both maids and Eugenia Skeeter Phelan a white woman in her twenties It is the story of Skeeter writing a book about experiences the women have had working as maids In the book Aibileen is in her car and hears the song The Times They are A Changin by Bob Dylan This song wasnt written until 1964 after