Kathryn Stockett

The Help, a novel written by Kathryn Stockett, consists mainly of disturbing events. These events usually involve the maids such as Minny and Yule May because their lives are straitened and disturbing. It disturbs me that due to their employer Miss Hilly’s treatment towards them, they treat her badly. For example, Miss Hilly manipulated all the White women in the town by convincing them not to hire Minny as a maid because she stole where in turn Minny bakes a poo pie for revenge. Also, Miss…

the literary novel, The Help, author Kathryn Stockett, uses an African American female named Aibileen to progress the story and highlight the absurd values of society by focusing on the issue of racism. Aibileen, one of the main characters, is introduced to the story as one of the many “help” that are tasked with the crucial job of taking care of the high-class women’s children and their everyday household duties. By giving Aibileen this demeaning job, Stockett reveals the discrimination that…

In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help there are several dynamic characters, one of those being Miss Skeeter Phelan, who undergoes a change in attitude. Skeeter’s ideas and knowledge how the maids were treated was very limited at the beginning of the novel, as she hadn’t had the opportunity to keep track of her own maid as an adult. Skeeter, throughout the book, tried her best to learn about the lives of the maids and to not insult them, however, earlier on in her life she had been offensive towards…

accused of carrying dangerous diseases and therefore could not use the same bathroom as white. The novel the help, by Kathryn Stockett, demonstrates racism and reveals how the humiliation of a person can affect other, also symbolism is essential to the novel and demonstrates how difficult is being a black woman can affect their life. Racism was manifest by humiliating others. Stockett demonstrates how the mindless death of Aibileen's son Treelore causes Aibileen to focus on the injustices…

In the powerful literary text The Help by Kathryn Stockett, a captivating tale of bravery and discrimination is based upon three extraordinary women's attempts to confront and battle racial segregation in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960’s. The author evokes the theme that racism is detrimental to society due to the inequity of basic human rights. This theme is shown significantly in the conflict between Skeeter Phelan and Hilly Holbrook, when Miss Holbrook declares her proposal, to…

The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, was set during the 1960s, which was also when the Civil Rights Movement was occurring. During this time, life was extremely tough for black people, but even more so for black women. There were two major problems during the Civil Rights Movement, racism and gender stereotyping. Blacks, as a whole, were treated very poorly due to the simple fact, they were a different color. They were never even given a chance. Without even knowing them, white people…

Prejudice and Racism in the Help How would you feel if all of the hard work you’ve done was all reversed by someone? In the Help by Kathryn Stockett, seemingly all of the white people in the book are fully aware of all of the social confines between themselves and African American people with the exception of children. The maids come to love the little white children they take care of and often become a mother figure to the children as their biological mothers neglect them. However when their…

In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, setting influences the characters’ thoughts, actions, and choices, by either limiting them because of social normalities in Jackson, Mississippi, or by the historical background. First, Skeeter’s actions were restricted by the laws of the specific time period, the 1960’s, as it was illegal for white and colored people to converse outside of an occupation. While interviewing the maids, Skeeter risked injuring both herself and the maids if caught by the police, as…

segregation, secrets, and risks. A time that includes the struggles that the colored help go through on a daily basis working under white families. As well as the laws that limit them and allow them to remain submissive in such a prejudicial time. In Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help, the relationships between the black and white races in 1960’s Jackson Mississippi is examined through the lives of two black maids and one young white woman, who all form unlikely friendship during segregation.…

to exhibit these characteristics within a book, article, poem, etc. and remind the reader of their importance as Faulkner exemplifies in his Nobel Prize for Literature speech given in 1950. The books, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Help by Kathryn Stockett, showcase one of the paramount qualities a human needs to obtain: willingness to sacrifice when safety…