Kathryn Stockett

In 2011 the movie The Help was made and based off the best selling book of the same name. The book portrays how white women treat their black maids in 1960’s Mississippi. The main character Skeeter, who grew up in a well to do white family in Mississippi, comes home from college and watches her now married and grown up friends treat their black help with no dignity. Throughout the movie Skeeter’s friends are very concerned with what others think and how it will affect their social status, even…

The Help, is a film that examines social issues of oppressed groups during the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. The film examines the relationship of the African American hired help to the middleclass white women. In this movie, there are many similarity and differences of themes between modern culture and that of the film. This paper attempts analyzes some of these major trends. One key similarity I observed was racial tension. The film portrayed an almost blind hatred from the white women…

Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help focuses on the idea of oppression and reveals the idea of cycles within families and environments through the use of Miss Leefolt, Miss Celia, and Stuart Whitworth. By using these characters, Stockett shows how the way people are brought up as a child, molds who they go on to become as an adult. Miss Leefolt’s constant mistreatment by her mother when she was young led to the abuse of her own child when she became a parent. Though Miss Leefolt claims she loves…

There are always some people who do not agree on the fact that The Help was a book that was meant to show positive sides of what the blacks did during the Civil Rights Movement. The book, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, only showed how the black women were very weak, kept their opinions to themselves, and were always very afraid of what the white women would do to them if they did the smallest thing wrong. Some of the actions that the women took made it seem like they were completely under the…

In the book “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett, takes place in Mississippi, in the early 1960’s. A women named Skeeter, who wants to become a writer, comes back from collage and finds out that her childhood maid/nanny, Constantine, has left and no one is telling her why. Later in the book Skeeter chooses to do an interview with African American women, who’ve spent their lives taking care of well-known white families. Only Aibileen who is Skeeters best friend’s housekeeper, was willing to talk first,…

Rhetorical Analysis: The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a novel written in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett that has been featured on the New York Time’s best-sellers list. The story is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s and tells the story of black maids working in white households. The story addresses issues such as racism and gender equality roles. The story is told in the perspective of three different characters: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter. Aibileen and Minny are working…

Reader Response Journal #1 The novel I chose for the theme of “Good vs. Evil” is The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett. Contrary to popular belief, the book is a work of fiction, although the events of discrimination described was definitely a real problem, especially in the Southern United States. The novel has a very unique approach to storytelling, in that each chapter is given by a different (main) character’s perspective. For example, the story begins with the strong and wise maid in…

American author Kathryn Stockett, wrote a 2009 novel called, “The Help.” Kathryn Stockett wrote this story about maids who are African American who work in white people’s households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960’s. Stockett also grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and realized that every family that she knew had an African American maid working in their household doing all of the chores. Kathryn’s novel is inspired by her own personal life. I think Stockett was courageous for writing this…

feminism, and civil/social disobedience. First, race is where the primary emphasis of this book is positioned where the African Americans are the primarily hired help for rich Caucasian families that are most of the time not treated adequately. Kathryn Stockett captures this essence of the struggle that Blacks had back in the 1960’s. This was a matter that affected…

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. A period of time where people believed in the segregation of blacks from whites, and the superiority of whites. The novel features strong black women sharing their stories about their lives as maids and what it is like working for white families. Aibileen and Minny, two coloured maids work alongside Skeeter Phelan, a white southern woman, to create a book depicting the truth. Throughout their stories we come to…