The movie The Help was directed by Tate Taylor. Tate Taylor 's main purpose of making the film was to show the life of black women and overall race inequality during the 1960 's.The story of the movie sets during the 1960 's when slavery had disappeared but inequality continued throughout the country, but the location of this movie sets place in Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. The Help is about a white girl named Skeeter who went through college to become a writer, unlike many white girls who would go to college just to get married. To become a writer, Skeeter had to find something to write about, and her heart went out towards the black maids that were working for white families. Even though she struggles to find volunteers
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Black people werent able to get which ever job they wanted and they couldn’t demand minimum wage. If they demanded minimum wage they would either get fired or get beat. According to the narrative Frederick Douglass wrote called "What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?", he talks about how hard it is for him to forget the slave beatings. In his article Douglass talks about how black kids werent allowed to go to the same schools as white kids went to. In the movie The Help the White Citizens Council is established to make segregation among white housholds. This council group did its best in making laws to prevent the two groups interactions. Another fact the movie mentions is that books were not to be interchanged , but rather reused by the same skin colored …show more content…
Minny works for Hilly 's mother but Hilly is sending her mother to a nursing home therefore Minny loses her job. When you watch the movie you see that Minny can’t find a job. She goes from place to place only to be rejected due to Hilly 's influence on all of the families with the bathroom project she made (where black people werent allowed to use the same bathrooms as white people but had to use outside bathrooms specifically made for them). When bathrooms were segregated, colored people had to use the bathrooms outside while the white families had one inside. When colored people were lowered to use outside utilities it showed that white people already had a higher privilege of using a inside home bathroom. Minny is the main voice in the movie especially when there was a necessity for more maids; Minny was the first to volunteer to go out and ask other maids when Skeeter 's boss told her she needed at least a dozen more interviews. During this time white people had the opportunitty of getting which job this wanted, and they rarely got rejected on the other hand black people got rejected quite often. Bathrooms and living quarters for black people were way more different then white people 's. Skeeter saw that black maids were being put to outside bathrooms while white people went inside the house. In this case, the privilege white people have is ruling over the other.
Black people werent able to get which ever job they wanted and they couldn’t demand minimum wage. If they demanded minimum wage they would either get fired or get beat. According to the narrative Frederick Douglass wrote called "What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?", he talks about how hard it is for him to forget the slave beatings. In his article Douglass talks about how black kids werent allowed to go to the same schools as white kids went to. In the movie The Help the White Citizens Council is established to make segregation among white housholds. This council group did its best in making laws to prevent the two groups interactions. Another fact the movie mentions is that books were not to be interchanged , but rather reused by the same skin colored …show more content…
Minny works for Hilly 's mother but Hilly is sending her mother to a nursing home therefore Minny loses her job. When you watch the movie you see that Minny can’t find a job. She goes from place to place only to be rejected due to Hilly 's influence on all of the families with the bathroom project she made (where black people werent allowed to use the same bathrooms as white people but had to use outside bathrooms specifically made for them). When bathrooms were segregated, colored people had to use the bathrooms outside while the white families had one inside. When colored people were lowered to use outside utilities it showed that white people already had a higher privilege of using a inside home bathroom. Minny is the main voice in the movie especially when there was a necessity for more maids; Minny was the first to volunteer to go out and ask other maids when Skeeter 's boss told her she needed at least a dozen more interviews. During this time white people had the opportunitty of getting which job this wanted, and they rarely got rejected on the other hand black people got rejected quite often. Bathrooms and living quarters for black people were way more different then white people 's. Skeeter saw that black maids were being put to outside bathrooms while white people went inside the house. In this case, the privilege white people have is ruling over the other.