The book, the help talks about how black maid were exploited working with mediocre payments. This book show how black maid were humiliated and the tool they used to speak against racism. Black maid were 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 around her and want to do something to make a change.
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Hilly was accusing all black woman of having diseases and she is telling all Mississippi house need a separate bathroom if the have maids. To point out, "All these houses they're building without maid quarters? It just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases then we do."(Stockett 8) In others words, this quote shows, how bad is to be a black woman and they also had little opportunities of finding work because of the rumors of carrying dangerous disease. Lastly, White school is teaching the kids to be racist instead of respect everyone and this is what Aibileen is trying to prevent. To emphasize, " I [Aibileen ] want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color. Diseases ain't the Negro side town. I [aibileen] want to stop the moment from happening and it come in every white child-life when they start to think colored folk are not good as white".(Stockett 96) This quote proves that, black people are being humiliated since the kid start going to school because the teachers are teaching the kids to be racist. To summarize, kids are born with racial prejudices and this is the reason why people were so racist in the 1960s, but the most important thing is Aibileen is working hard to keep May Mobley from being
Hilly was accusing all black woman of having diseases and she is telling all Mississippi house need a separate bathroom if the have maids. To point out, "All these houses they're building without maid quarters? It just plain dangerous. Everybody knows they carry different kinds of diseases then we do."(Stockett 8) In others words, this quote shows, how bad is to be a black woman and they also had little opportunities of finding work because of the rumors of carrying dangerous disease. Lastly, White school is teaching the kids to be racist instead of respect everyone and this is what Aibileen is trying to prevent. To emphasize, " I [Aibileen ] want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color. Diseases ain't the Negro side town. I [aibileen] want to stop the moment from happening and it come in every white child-life when they start to think colored folk are not good as white".(Stockett 96) This quote proves that, black people are being humiliated since the kid start going to school because the teachers are teaching the kids to be racist. To summarize, kids are born with racial prejudices and this is the reason why people were so racist in the 1960s, but the most important thing is Aibileen is working hard to keep May Mobley from being