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Education Is A Privilege In The Help By Annie Stockett
A miserable theme that ‘The Help’ made me wonder about was how education is a privilege. Well-off, mediocre, white… with these qualities, you will succeed in university. Poverty-stricken, intelligent, black… with these qualities, you won’t. Stockett seemed to be suggesting that the wealth and the colour of your skin determines whether you get an education in the 1960s segregation era. A moment that exhibited this theme was when Miss Hilly’s maid Yule Mae asked her for a loan as she couldn’t send both of her twin sons to college. Hilly replied,

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", were the exact words that popped into my mind. How can this woman be so insensitive of the realities of life for the poor! I am certain that Yule Mae and her husband
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