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The Help: Comparison Between The Book And Movie
The length and depth of the book might produce a movie has many deleted or developed events. This change can lead to different results: add more excitement to the story or unclear point to the viewers. The limited time of movies, which is mostly 1.5- 3 hours, force the director to do editing and delete many parts of the movie. Although The Help movie deleted many characters and events from the novel, it did not effect on the success. The researcher thinks that the movie was not as good the book because there were many deleted and changed senses.
The book showed that maids were not only suffering from racism, they were also victims of violence. For example, Minny's childhood was not the best cause of her drunk father, when she grows up she promised herself never to marry to a drunk man, but she did "I swear to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did."(Stockett 227). Along with abused mad husband, she was accused of stealing by Miss Hilly which makes it hard for her to find a job in the town. After that, she works for Miss Celia Rae Foote in secret. One
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Then, Minny goes upstairs to see Miss Celia, she knocks the bathroom's door many times, and Miss Celia tells her to leave. Minny felt that there is something wrong so, she pushed the door hard and break it. Then, she finds out that Miss Celia miscarried her baby, Minny helps her, and takes her to bed to rest, Miss Celia tells Minny that Johnny wants to have babies and he does not know that she lost two babies before that baby. Furthermore, Minny meets Johnny for the first time when she was going to Miss Celia house with groceries stuff, she got panic, but he tries to calm her down and tell her that Miss Celia told him everything and he is so grateful that she is working for

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