Picture a small town where everyone just gossiped like high school girls.The gossip, however, would not just be about who was dating who; the gossip would be about discrimination. Discrimination towards someone based on their skin color or judging someone because they act strange and never come outside.Maycomb, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi are both filled with this kind of gossip.The novel To Kill a Mockingbird,written by Harper Lee, is a story that takes place in the early 1930’s in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama. This story is told from the perspective of Jean Louise Finch ,(Scout) as a grown woman, she is telling her story from when she was younger. Scout lives with her father Atticus, brother Jem and her maid Calpurnia. The Finch family is neighbors with the mystery man, Boo Radley. Maycomb, a very racist town, also is very judgemental towards Boo because although he is white, he is different than anyone else in the community. In the novel, the …show more content…
However, in the town of Jackson, Mississippi, the discrimination is directed towards black people. The movie The Help, directed by Tate Taylor, takes place in this town in the 1960’s. The movie is the story of Eugenia Phelan (Skeeter) taking her stand on racism with her friends who are maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson. Skeeter is from a wealthy white family, who also had a maid of their own, and and her family is friends with people who live just like them. Skeeter, on the other hand, is nothing like her friends. They are all very racist towards their maids, and do not believe in being separated from them as whites and blacks. Skeeter is sick of the discrimination, so she decides to get together with , Aibileen and Minny and write a book from the point of view of “the help”. In The Help, Skeeter takes a public, courageous stand while Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird, just