Breaking The Chain Of Freedom In The Help And Standing Tall

My report examines the connections of breaking the chain of freedom across texts and how what these chains say about the society we live in. All humans should have a right to education, the freedom of speech and ..The texts I used were I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, He Named Me Malala directed by Davis Guggenheim, The Help directed by Tate Taylor and Standing Tall directed by Nils Tavernier. In my opinion all the texts had sufficient themes of discrimination and injustice and how speaking up can help break the chain. These chains can be seen discrimination of race or gender, the right to education, and the injustice of having rights stipped away as a women or person of colour. I know why the caged bird sings and The help relates …show more content…
Although the film does not focus on lack of education I think that the black women are not educated as the only job we see them doing is being house maids. Millie says “My mama was a maid and my grandmama was a house slave” which shows that the women in their community have not been allowed the education to be able to break the cycle. Also when Millie gets fired her daughter also starts working as a housemaid which means she presumingly quit school due to poverty as shown also by children in the film Standing Tall. The film shows discrimination and segregation due to the colour of someones skin, examples of this is how the white women do not want the black house maids to use their toilets because they think they will catch some type of disease. Skeeter a white women that has not prejudice on race as she was raised by a black maid, wants to write a book on how the house maids live and are treated. The maids are scared at first of telling their stories but after events of discrimination they come forward and help her write her book. The reason the black house maids were so scared of coming forward is that in the film, although not obvious it seems that many black people are killed by whites with no consequence. Abilene talks about how her son was killed while working at a lumber mill, a white foreman ran his truck over him and crushed his lung, although he took him to a coloured hospital he passed at the age of twenty-four. When she tells her story I feel that the police did not care about the death of a black man and never bothered to find the white foreman to arrest him for his crimes. The police do not investigate the death of a black man but when a black woman tries to sell a ring she found under a white women's coach she's arrested brutally in front of everyone. This shows why the women were too scared at first to help skeeter write her