Character Analysis: The Help

Someone once said; "sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever," a quote that utterly complements The Help. With this in mind, The Help is both, a movie and a novel. According to an article that Valerie Smith wrote in Gale Academic OneFile, the novel was written by Kathryn Stockett in 2009 and then was produced into a movie by Tate Taylor in 2011. Moreover, Stockett and Taylor introduced precise characters to show the conflicts of life.

The Help takes place in Mississippi while discrimination devours the best out of society. A young white woman, Eugenia Phalen or also known as Skeeter, returns home from college with the desires of becoming a writer. In fact, Skeeter's unique dreams compared to those of other white
With time, a lot of fallen women start to appear and they all stand for what they believe in no matter the consequences. Correspondingly, Esther Peterson and Malala Yousafzai are also fallen women. According to Gale Biography in Context, Peterson was a spirited lobbyist who fought for equal pay for woman. In addition, she organized a strike with the help of her friends and as a result, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union helped secure higher wages for the women. Peterson continued all her life dedicating herself to help women by becoming the director of the Women's Bureau in 1961. As a result of her strong desires and success, she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. Moreover, another fallen woman is Malala Yousafzai; a Pakistani girl that defies what her country believes in. Yousafzai is the first educated girl from her country due to the circumstance that in her country girls shouldn't have an education. Yousafzai writes in her blog how eager she is to be educated and that causes terror for the militant Taliban. Also, on her blog, she addresses that girls should have an education which results in people wanting to kill her. In 2012, a man shoots her in the head in order to stop her from spreading her idea but that doesn't stop her. Even after the terrible event, she continues to spreads her idea about the importance of education. Furthermore, she won the National Youth Peace Prize by the Pakistani government in 2011 and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Henceforth, as Pakistani says, "We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and