Black Maids In The Help

Some writers employ literature to manifest the inner feelings of the Blacks and their strong will to liberate. As, literature is a weapon and a voice which is given for others to explore a chance to develop and to improve their conditions. Kathryn Stockett, as an aspiring author, decides to write a book dealing with the black maids' point of view on the white families for which they work and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. In The Help (2009), Stockett presents the horrible life of the Blacks especially the black maids; their irritation, their anger, and their rebellion against the traditions. Stockett uses literature as an effective weapon to liberate the black maids and to illustrate their feelings about their positions in the society and their triumph
Being dark meant you were lower class, ugly and unimportant. "what more do they want? Why in God's name won't they accept me as a full human being? . . . why am I still not allowed to aspire to the same things every white person in America takes as a birthright? Why, when I most want to be seen, am I suddenly rendered invisible?" (Cose 1). Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America's civil rights movement. No state in the south was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. As historian David Oshinsky writes: "The codes of honor and vengeance, and isolation had all left their bloody mark, Mississippians earned less, killed more, and died younger than other Americans". ("Mississippi! A Place Apart"). Mississippi's lawmakers, law enforcement officers, public officials, and private citizens worked long and hard to maintain the segregated way of life that had dominated the state since the end of the civil war in 1865. The method that ensured segregation persisted was the use and threat of violence against people who sought to end it.