Kathryn Stockett

If someone was wanting to read a book that had words so powerful, almost offensive to some, and brilliant to others, one may suggest The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It is a novel about a white woman in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, attempting to do something no one ever has before; write a novel about what it’s like for black women to work for white families. Although Stockett never meant for the words on the pages to be offensive, they did have a purpose. She used this novel to reflect her own life, and tunneled deep inside her creative mind to answer a few vague questions. Kathryn Stockett was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969. Many people say she was part of the classic “southern” stereotype of families in that region. Stockett’s family…

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, is a book that can really -help- you to see what America was like during the 1960s. Stockett writes about Jackson, Mississippi telling stories about the Help and their white bosses. I would recommend reading this book for two main reasons: The cultural insight, and the pure joy of reading this book. The Help dives right into the heart of southern cultural, especially that of Civil Rights. We have characters like Hilly Holbrook, set that the separation of…

The Help, a book based in the mid-1960s, is an astonishing read in which the author, Kathryn Stockett, brings to attention three very different lifestyles. In The Help, Aibileen Clark, a black maid who takes care of a white child named Mae Mobley Leefolt; Minny Jackson, a black maid who is insistent on speaking her mind; and Euginia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan, a white amateur journalist who reaches out to Aibileen and Minny to write what it is like to be a black maid. The book starts in the August of…

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s. At this point in history, people of European ancestry are still held to a higher degree than African Americans. This leads to most white families hiring colored maids, referred to as the Help, who have less opportunities and privileges than the people who hire them. Over the course of the novel, the reader takes the story from the point of view of three women: Aibileen Clark, an older black maid who was born and…

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory of overcoming it.”, said by Moliere relates to The Help solely because it is based on obstacles that are put upon the characters in the book. The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is mainly about three women who are trying to overcome the racism of their time by writing a book, all while telling their stories. Ms. Celia's treatment towards Minny compelled Minny to believe she should be treated as a person. Minny is the new maid to Celia Foote, and once Minny…

Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’ is a novel that takes place in Mississippi and portrays the roles of women in 1960s and the limitations imposed on them by society. The women in the novel struggle to overcome what society has deemed as right and in turn they establish bonds with other women over shared problems. The white socialites have built social barriers between themselves and the African Americans domestic workers based upon their beliefs that blacks are lower class and diseased. In…

Kathryn Stockett’s book The Help was published February 10, 2009. When Kathryn was growing up she lived in Jackson, Mississippi and after graduating college she moved to New York for 9 years and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she wrote The Help. While living in New York she worked in magazine publishing and marketing and when she lived in Atlanta she worked 5 hard years to write The Help. After she finished writing the book she got turned down by over 60 publishers (Author’s Purpose).…

Out of all the novels in the world, there is a book that everyone should get the option to read. The novel, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, is a book that a reader can not put down and wants to keep reading it to find out what happens next. In the story, the reader gets to read through the life of black maids and a white woman in their perspective to see how life in this time period was like. Miss Skeeter, the white woman’s perspective in the novel, has decided to write a collection of stories of…

The book’s foundation is racism and segregation where the plot builds upon the foundation. There are a lot of morals and lessons which the writer, Kathryn Stockett, emphasis throughout that book. The book gives a variety of characters where we can find ourselves reflected, even if it is just a little bit of our behaviors. Through this, we, as readers, realize that even in our subconscious that we are stereotyping other groups of people. The movie however, only has one plot that takes control of…

could eat together, drink from the same water fountain, use the same bathrooms, and surprisingly even get married. Back in 1991, 48% approved blacks and whites to marry. Today, it is 85% percent approved. Although the percentages went up, some couples are still looked at funny. Some people have a hard time adjusting to the interracial relationships. This will take a long time before it is “truly accepted” to society today. This is why I love The Help. It is a great example for the civil rights…