Examples Of Racial Discrimination In The Help

“Racial Discrimination is treating someone differently, unkindly, and/ or inhumanely because of their race, their ethnicity, the color of their skin, and so forth.” This discrimination is clearly shown in the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The Help is about African- American maids living in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s. The book details maids and their employers' lives, and how these characters are affected and how they change due to racial discrimination in the community. Throughout the whole book, racial discrimination plays a considerable part in defining the story. The discrimination in the story changes in some of the characters, but some seem to never learn the error of their ways. By the end of the book there is a transformation in the community dynamic. Although not all the characters showed a noticeable change in the novel, there is a major change overall in racial discrimination throughout novel The Help. In the beginning of the novel, all of the characters with the exception of the maids were very obviously discriminatory against the African-American’s in the city and had no …show more content…
There were some characters that did not change at all throughout the entire book. However, the community as a whole showed a difference in learning about their mistakes, and showed promise in showing less racism to the colored help in the community. This novel shows that even though “the help” was discriminated against all their life, not having their own power to help change that, they could still work to help lives for their prosperity with the help of those who have the power to discriminate against them but do not because they are educated past their peers’ ignorance. Through any dilemma racial discrimination can be fought and conquered as shown by most of the characters in the book who changes their discriminatory ways with the knowledge they