“The Help‚” is an award-winning movie about a white woman‚ Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan‚ who is an aspiring writer. To show her talents and professionalism as a writer and also expose the unkind treatment toward the black people of her time‚ Eugenia decided to write a book from the viewpoint of some of the maids in the community. This movie is set in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era. In the 1960s‚ Mississippi continued to be very segregated and the African Americans were kept under control by
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SETTING The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson‚ Mississippi ‚ in Stocketts hometown The Setting is important for the plot of the book because Jackson is still known as one of the most segregated towns in the U.S" MAIN CHARACTERS The Help is told from the point of view of 3 different women‚ namely‚ AIBILEEN‚ MINNY‚ AND SKEETER. AIBILEEN is an African-American maid who cleans houses and cares for the children of white families. MINNY is also an African-American maid and she is Aibileen’s
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The movie The Help‚ produced by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the average lifestyle of African American women during the 1960’s‚ at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.The most conventional job for an African American woman during this period was a maid for an American family. The movie has a social message and “explores race relations in the 1960’s South by telling the stories of four black housekeepers and the white women for whom they work ” (“Former Slave Sues Author For False Portrayal” 1)
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How The Help Impacted Me in Different Ways The Help is a very inspiring story about racism‚ bravery‚ and change. The main character skeeter‚ struggles to become a writer for Elaine Stein publishing company‚ she must create an “original” idea to write about for her first article in the paper. Aibileen also narrates the story and she’s describing what she feels throughout the story. The Help is important for our society to read because it’s reminding us that racism was a problem that happened and
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The Help‚ by Kathryn Stockett‚ is a book about three women‚ Aibileen‚ Minny and Skeeter‚ told from their point of view during a time span of a few years. Aibileen and Minny are best friends‚ but in the beginning of the book‚ Skeeter doesn’t either of them very well. As the book progresses‚ Aibileen and Minny begin to help Skeeter with a novel she is writing about the life of black maids in Jackson‚ Mississippi. At the end of the book‚ Skeeter got the job in New York City and Minny‚ Aibileen and Skeeter
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The film‚ The Help‚ directed by Tate Taylor utilizes conflict between the African American and white characters to reveal the dominant attitude that the black race was inferior to the white race and were simply there to serve them. Through the black character’s perspectives‚ we get an insight into the conflicts and daily struggles the maids or ‘the help’ had to face on a regular occurrence. This constant conflict between the two groups represented reinforces the dominant attitude of racial prejudice
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“The Help” An emotionally stirring movie taking place in Jackson‚ Mississippi in the 1960s‚ “The Help” stars Emma Stone‚ Viola Davis‚ and Octavia Spencer as three women who share a common motive. This racially tense setting creates the perfect foundation for a drama film such as this. The characters’ personalities in combination with the emotion of the plot develop a socially accurate depiction of the struggles faced by the people of the time. While the racial aspect of the movie is dominant
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five every day just because of malnutrition. (911 and starvation‚ Mylan Engel Jr.) Not because they refuse to eat‚ not even because they have bad parents‚ but solely because they are homeless and cannot find any nutrition. These children can not help the fact that they are dying at all‚ they search throughout dumpsters and gutters just for one bite‚ but they still die. The price to keep one of these children hydrated for a few days is only fifteen cents. How much money is wasted everyday on
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Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Text type: Novel In the novel ‘’ The Help’’ written be Kathryn stockett it is written focusing on the lives of black maids during the 1960s and all of the issues and problems that black people had to deal with during this time period. It is set in Mississippi during the 1960s and focuses on the lives of black maids and a 22 year old lady Skeeter who has just graduated from university. Throughout the book Skeeter is fighting for the civil rights of the black
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ABFA 1013 INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS STUDIES (STATE YOUR PROGRAM) YEAR 1 – SEMESTER 1 COURSEWORK 1 ZAN PAT CHI YOUR STUDENT ID CHOI PAT KOR YOUR STUDENT ID MO TAI HA YOUR STUDENT ID MING CHI HA YOUR STUDENT ID HAA CHOI HA YOUR STUDENT ID TUTORIAL GROUP : DBS90 DAY : Wednesday TIME : 8AM – 9.30AM DATE OF SUBMISSION : 8 June 2011 1 This is a sample GUIDE only. You are required READ and UNDERSTAND but not to COPY and PARAPHRASE
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