Kathryn Stockett

like Minny who “had a mouth on her” because I wanted to show that people realized how blacks were treated, yet nothing was done to change society (Stockett 10). Along with Minny, Skeeter even questioned the maids and asked if “[they] ever wish[ed] [they] could… change things” because they knew life was not the way it should be and was supposed to be (Stockett 10). This rotation of characters created a variety of point of views, from a white female writer, to a sassy black woman who was abused by…

‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, both follow the tales of female protagonists combatting prejudice and discrimination in the American South. In Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Scout Finch challenges feminine expectations in her determination to remain as a tomboy, and similarly in Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’, Skeeter Phelan defies gender stereotypes and her safe social status in her attempt to find sovereignty over her own life. Stockett’s novel…

college, she went on to write her first novel, The Help. She was rejected by many publishing agencies before she was finally published by Penguin Books (Einhorn). Due to Stockett growing up in the South during a segregated time between blacks and whites, almost every family she knew had an African American maid working for them. Stockett had a very close relationship with her family’s maid, Demetrie. Her personal experiences of growing up in Jackson with a maid are what inspired her thoughts for…

by the women of the upper-class like in the town of Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. In this time period, if you were not from the same social ranking as everyone else one would be seen as less important and treated poorly. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett utilizes the dilemma of Celia Foote not fitting in with the upper-class society of women to successfully display how social rankings partitions between individuals and formulates situation associated with the treatment of the help and…

Injustice In the novel, The Help, Kathryn Stockett uses the theme of injustice to visualize the harshness of that time period, how strictly their society is viewed, and how the maids were being mistreated. Throughout the novel, Stockett uses the position of the maids to give examples of racial injustice during that time. The maids were mistreated, but in ways so were the white women. Many of the white women in the story were also affected by similar injustices,“white characters, with their…

novel living through the life of a little girl named Scout. Scout learns about life through a few major milestones and how harsh society can be with equality issues. Another book where the author develops many themes is the novel, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett you live through the lives of two black women, Minny and Aibileen, and a white woman named Skeeter. These women fight to live their lives without any diversion by writing…

demonstrate change throughout time. Stories by significant black heritage such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Emmett Till, and other African-Americans have shown an improvement within the black community. In the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett one can comprehend that conflicts can change the views between others. Skeeter Phelan, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson are the protagonist in the book and each outlook on the topic race as it shows effects within Jackson, Mississippi…

ma”am” and “yes sir, no sir” (Maslin C6). In this part of the book, Aibileen is having an everyday conversation with her employer when she says, “Oven a be off in a minute. Kids gone out back to play,” (Stockett 457). Most writers struggle to come up with a perfect “voice”. Ward states that Stockett not only perfected one but three distinctive voices in her first book. The protagonist voice, Aibileen Clark, is based off of a maid named Demetrie who worked for Stockett’s grandmother for many…

In Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett shows what life was like for black maids taking care of white families. Stockett does a good job of showing the difference between real life and fiction. She knows that race is a fact of life and how society can determine what people see you as. “The Help” is a community of black people who bring up white children and take care of their homes. The book is narrated by three women, Minny; a black maid who has a big mouth…

tend to find themselves struggling to meet society’s expectations and will often change themselves in order to conform to the expectations of society. Celia Foote in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help is characterized as one who is from a lower social class, attempting to fit in with society and the women in the upper class. In The Help, Stockett uses the conflict of Miss Celia attempting to live up to the societal expectations in order to demonstrate that people often feel forced to conform to fit…