Kathryn Stockett

by Kathryn Stockett. Kathryn wrote about the harsh reality of racism during the 1960's. She examined stories she has heard over her lifetime and she also included her own personal experiences she encountered. Stockett's book, The Help, was created by her own personal life. The Help expresses the need for racial equality. Kathryn Stockett was astonished by the racial inequalities in life, so she took it upon herself to use her own experiences to establish the need for racial equality. Kathryn…

February 10, 2009, Kathryn Stockett wrote a novel based on the lifestyles of African Americans(maids) in Mississippi in the 1950s and the 1960s. In the novel, Stockett not only gives her point of view in the novel but also she shows the maids or “The Helps’” point of view. In the book, an aspiring writer, Skeeter Phelan, interviews the maids on how they feel about their job and how they are treated. At first, the only maid to talk to Skeeter is Aibileen Clark, after seeing what the book is going…

Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X who led the colored population to seek equality. With the civil rights movement taking place, colored people around the world began to take their own steps towards racial equality. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, Stockett recounts…

The Help directed by Tate Taylor, is set in the early 1960s. The story follows the Southern society girl Skeeter Phelan after she returns from college to Jackson, Mississippi in hopes of becoming a writer. Skeeter begins interviewing black maids to learn about their experiences serving prominent white families. Although The Help gives the perspective of the black maids in this time period, The Help focuses too much on a white protagonist and does not focus enough on the stands that were taken…

The Help makes a social statement by disclosing the stories of coloured maids in Jackson, Mississippi through a young white lady, Skeeter, who aspires to be a writer. It is a bold risk for a white lady cross the line of segregation by writing a book about the lives of black maid in the south. The novel struggles with the subjects of racism, segregation, white privilege, and other civil rights issues during the 1960s. It can be extremely difficult to stand up for what you believe in when everyone…

The Help (2011) Similarly, in 2011, The Help, was released, starring Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. The film is about a young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter is a journalist decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as "the help"), exposing the racism they are faced with…

Inequity What is it that we take pride in putting one another down to be on top? This is the question that arose while reading The Help which was published in 2009, by Kathryn Stockett. It takes place in the 1960s right before the civil rights movement. Through the the book, we can take a close view at the interconnected black and white community. The difference between black and white Americans are vividly little hence, they rip apart the universe. The constant war between the two sides…

primary focus, Stockett pulls conflicting and harmonious relationships between these characters that intensify the issues with racial segregation. Aibleen and Minny are the main characters who tell their story from the black maid’s perspective. Whereas, Skeeter tells the account of an upper-class white woman’s point of view. Getting three different angles on the racial segregation issue in 1960’s really gives the reader a different interpretation on how the major…

The help by Kathryn Stockett has showed the meaning of the line through the story which separated between blacks and whites. The ones that benefited the most in society where whites,but African American folks had to fight the way through. Not only was it segregated,but when he came to having the most power, the African-American maids like Aibileen were the weakest. Throughout the story you’ll see that the line starts to disappear. That no one is better than the other. The line was what separated…

The Help is a deeply moving story that shines a lot of light on some of the common trials that African Americans experienced during the Civil Rights era. Of course however, any novel (and/or movie) is only as good as its main characters. One of the core protagonists, Aibileen, a black maid in the wealthy Leefolt household, is incredibly significant in this story. Her character is able to connect with the reader due to three of the main qualities she possesses: strength, love, and intelligence…