In The Help the Jim Crow laws are mentioned a lot throughout the movie and black people are reminded that everything is separate but equal. Lynchings were finally abolished in the 1960s, but that didn’t stop the KKK from taking lives, and African Americans faced prejudices every day. The Civil Rights Movement was taking place during this time, which eventually lead to initiatives such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In To Kill a Mockingbird and in The Help there are good people who don’t see the color of someone’s skin and will treat them like a person, such as Atticus Finch, and Skeeter, who try their very best to do what they think is right. Atticus Finch doesn’t succeed in his story, but the family and friends of Tom Robinson were grateful for his hard work. Skeeter wants to show the stories of the maids and it ends up being a success, once she has to cut certain people out of her life, because they can’t see past their own ignorance. Aibileen, a black women, is the narrator throughout most of the movie, unlike To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout, a young white child is the
In The Help the Jim Crow laws are mentioned a lot throughout the movie and black people are reminded that everything is separate but equal. Lynchings were finally abolished in the 1960s, but that didn’t stop the KKK from taking lives, and African Americans faced prejudices every day. The Civil Rights Movement was taking place during this time, which eventually lead to initiatives such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In To Kill a Mockingbird and in The Help there are good people who don’t see the color of someone’s skin and will treat them like a person, such as Atticus Finch, and Skeeter, who try their very best to do what they think is right. Atticus Finch doesn’t succeed in his story, but the family and friends of Tom Robinson were grateful for his hard work. Skeeter wants to show the stories of the maids and it ends up being a success, once she has to cut certain people out of her life, because they can’t see past their own ignorance. Aibileen, a black women, is the narrator throughout most of the movie, unlike To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout, a young white child is the