Book Report: “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett “The Help” is a novel written by the author Kathryn Stockett‚ published in 2009 and was made into a major motion picture in 2011‚ The storyline is about a young aspiring writer called Skeeter decides to write a book based on how the black women working as maids in white households were mistreated and segregated. She asks for the help of Aibileen‚ a maid who was currently working for one of her friends. This project gives her a chance to form a bond
Premium White people Black people Equals sign
Beatriz Santos Mrs. Vega English 11-1 10 March 2015 Starting the fire “I’ve never in my life had a white woman tell me to sit down so she can serve me a cold drink” (Stockett‚ 3). In the book The Help‚ by Kathryn Stockett‚ an open minded southern white girl‚ who wants to become a writer‚ returns to Jackson‚ Mississippi from college and decides to privately interview several black women that have spent their lives working as maids for white women. She writes a book based on their stories full of prejudice
Premium Black people African American White American
have ever thought that people may actually use this powerful energy of anger to reach the impossible. Kathryn Stockett is a normal American girl‚ who is known for her debut novel The Help. The Help is about African-American people working for white households in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ during the 1960s. Stockett tries‚ in her novel‚ to tackle a subject that is uncomfortable for most Americans. The Help describes the relationship between African-American maids and the white people. This research paper
Premium Black people White people Race
The Help‚ a well written novel by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the lives of the help through their perspective and the perspective of Skeeter Phelan‚ aspiring writer who hopes for civil rights. The book is set in Jackson‚ Mississippi in 1962. It is set in a time and place where the civil rights issues were increasingly becoming worse. Skeeter Phelan comes from a wealthy family in the south and dreams to not become a housewife against her family’s and friends desires‚ but to be a writer. She catches
Premium
towards the idea of racial harmony and African Americans were treated bitterly and relentlessly during this time. The author Kathryn Stockett wrote a novel in the perspective of mistreated black maids and one helping white woman during the time of the civil rights movement. Through the historical events‚ characters‚ and setting compiled into Kathryn Stockett’s novel‚ The Help‚ the theme of injustice and racial inferiority is portrayed. During the novel‚ the bus Aibileen is riding stops at a roadblock
Free African American White people Race
Dialects of The Help The Help is a book that depicts the lives of blacks in the 1960’s and what it was like to live in a world that was so harsh and unequal. During the 1960s blacks and whites were on unequal playing fields the blacks were seen as inferior and not as important. Within the novel the lives of two black maids are depicted and the struggles that they had to go through to live in an all white world. In the 1960s blacks and white were kept apart they were not allowed to go to the same
Premium Black people Race African American
The Help The richness and variety of language is part of what makes the book so appealing and intriguing. The main protagonists are presented with the southern accent ’Law have mercy’. Each character has been presented with their own stereotypical dialect which as a reader contributes to the realistic feel of the novel. The Novel is written mainly in first person from each of the 3 protagonists perspective. The story is told by 3 different people as Aibileen‚ Minnie and Skeeter take turns
Premium African American Grammatical person Black people
Stockett Helps Us See History’s Parallels Can fictional books subtly depict our own lives? The Help by Kathryn Stockett shows powerful impacts on society with its views of segregation and the power of propaganda. The novel reflects on our world today with the separation of people‚ and not just by the color of your skin. Pressures from society follow us around wherever we go‚ which is also an evident theme in The Help. The novel follows three main characters from Jackson‚ Mississippi: Aibileen‚ Minny
Premium Black people Fiction English-language films
Author‚ Kathryn Stockett wrote the book‚ The Help for many different reasons. She wanted to tell a story from a unique perspective since not many books are written in this manner. Another reason she chose to write about life through the eyes of the help is due to how passionately she felt this was needed to be shown to the world. Americans need to realize situations that happened in the past so that it will never happen again for future generations. She also wrote it to highlight the struggles and
Premium Black people White people African American
novel‚ The Help (By:Kathryn Stockett)‚ all the main characters take a risk to achieve a greater goal in the end. The maids and Miss. Skeeter (main characters) have this grand idea to make a change in their society. They write a book to tell how working for the white community during the time of the 1960’s is like. Throughout‚ these character’s journey they come to face with racism‚ justice‚ and many other conflicts and they have to work together in order to resolve this injustice. The Help exemplifies
Premium Friendship Change