Sacrifice
The novel The Help is a book about the lives of black maids in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960’s and how one woman is able to be dauntless and make a difference in the injustice they face. Miss Skeeter Phelan is a white woman who gives up everything to write a book expressing the opinions of black maids. The book she writes called “Help” which contains interviews from different maids describing what it is like to work for a white family. The book has a large influence on the town and affects people both positively and negatively. I think the most important theme from this novel is that sometimes you have to make sacrifices to do what is right. Although Miss Skeeter loses all she has to write her book, some maids are punished or lose their job, and white women are furious, in the end the impact the book made on the town was positive and this …show more content…
She is an older lady with no family and few things to call her own. Although she does not have much she is thankful for what she does have. Aibileen is the very first maid to volunteer to help with Miss Skeeter’s book. Aibileen hates how no one ever asks how she feels, and no one hear her opinions. That is why she risks her job to help with the book. “I start down the driveway, crying too, knowing how much I’m on miss Mae Mobley, praying her mama can how her more love. But at the same time feeling, in a way, that I’m free” (Stockett, 444) She hates the way maids practically raise a white family’s children, and love them, just so they can grow up and end up being racist just like their parents. She hates how maids are treated like they are not even people. But most of all, she hates how her opinion can never be heard. Aibileen sacrifices her job, and the little girl who she watches and loves, and for her it is worth it. Her opinion is heard and she is able to become a writer. She may have made a sacrifice, but it sets her
The novel The Help is a book about the lives of black maids in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960’s and how one woman is able to be dauntless and make a difference in the injustice they face. Miss Skeeter Phelan is a white woman who gives up everything to write a book expressing the opinions of black maids. The book she writes called “Help” which contains interviews from different maids describing what it is like to work for a white family. The book has a large influence on the town and affects people both positively and negatively. I think the most important theme from this novel is that sometimes you have to make sacrifices to do what is right. Although Miss Skeeter loses all she has to write her book, some maids are punished or lose their job, and white women are furious, in the end the impact the book made on the town was positive and this …show more content…
She is an older lady with no family and few things to call her own. Although she does not have much she is thankful for what she does have. Aibileen is the very first maid to volunteer to help with Miss Skeeter’s book. Aibileen hates how no one ever asks how she feels, and no one hear her opinions. That is why she risks her job to help with the book. “I start down the driveway, crying too, knowing how much I’m on miss Mae Mobley, praying her mama can how her more love. But at the same time feeling, in a way, that I’m free” (Stockett, 444) She hates the way maids practically raise a white family’s children, and love them, just so they can grow up and end up being racist just like their parents. She hates how maids are treated like they are not even people. But most of all, she hates how her opinion can never be heard. Aibileen sacrifices her job, and the little girl who she watches and loves, and for her it is worth it. Her opinion is heard and she is able to become a writer. She may have made a sacrifice, but it sets her